With funding from the History Colorado State Historical Fund, Historic Denver, Inc. will first develop historic contexts and themes, such as The Instant City: The Gold Rush and Early Settlement, to categorize buildings during documentation before surveying approximately 4,000 properties, analyzing the findings, and then crowd-sourcing the data to allow any Denver resident to share information about a surveyed property. This type of large-scale, modern survey both engages local residents in their neighborhoods and history and amasses survey information for students, researchers, the city planning department, and other interested parties to prepare for the city’s future and understand its past.