Before the Houses: Farms North of Town A hundred years ago, the land along North Broadway was farmland. According to a local history by About Boulder County, the site of today's North Boulder Shopping Center was once the fruit farm of Joseph and Eliza Wolff. Farther north on Broadway there was a seed company, a ranch, …

North Boulder Is Not a Smaller Downtown In 1985 the Daily Camera called the stretch of North Broadway from Iris Avenue to U.S. 36 "Boulder's last frontier." Reporter Kurt Chandler described it as "a realm of contrasts and contradictions — intimate yet secretive, often coarse, sometimes refined, and never predictable." …