Icons Only: The Coveted Midcentury Community That Residents Banded Together to Preserve

In 2011, Arapahoe Acres was listed on the Cultural Landscape Foundation’s "At-Risk Landscape" list thanks to a growing number of nonperiod renovations that were beginning to shift the neighborhood's planned aesthetic, from the removal of classic carports to the replacement of original landscaping by Hawkins and local contractor Roy Woodman, as well as some of the homes’ Japanese-inspired gardens designed in the ’60s by Stanley K. Yoshimura and Hylam Shimoda.