Cory Merrill is located in a wonderful area south of downtown Denver.  Residents enjoy upscale living on wide streets – some of which are lined with trees and corner churches.  The neighborhood has easy access to Washington Park, where you’ll find tennis courts, a basketball court, volleyball courts, soccer fields, lots of open space, a recreation center, path system, and two lakes.

This prime location near Washington Park enables Cory Merrill residents to enjoy a high quality of life with beautiful scenery, recreation opportunities, and modern amenities. Its boundaries are: Tennessee Avenue on the north, Interstate 25 on the south, Albion Street on the east, and York Street on the west. Cory Merrill is just south of the Bonnie Brae neighborhood.

The neighborhood is a mixture of 1940s and 1950s bungalows, smaller brick houses, and new mansions. Some people call it South Bonnie Brae, while others refer to it as "Just east of East Wash Park."  Either way, the Cory Merrill neighborhood doesn't need to be known through its more noticeable neighbors, this Denver neighborhood has its own identity.

Cory Merrill got its start somewhere between 1883 and 1886.  Subdivisions were made from prairie land: Coronado and Coronado Heights on the east and Electric Heights on the west side.  Plots of land were sold for between $100 and $160, causing the area to grow rapidly.  By 1889, there were more than 100 homes.  In 1906, Vincentian priests paid $15,218 for 59.5 acres of land in the middle of the area, where they built the St. Thomas Aquinas Theological Seminary. It was later sold to the Catholic Archdiocese and is now known as the John Paul II Center for the New Evangelization. This is at the corner of south Steele Street and east Louisiana Avenue and is commonly referred to as the center of Catholicism in Colorado; it is still home to the Archdiocese of Denver.

The neighborhood came to be known as Cory Merrill in honor of two well-known Denver educators: John Cory, the first principal of South High School and who remained there for 20 years; and Louise Merrill, a pioneer in junior-high education.  Brick homes and bungalows replaced the first wood homes in the 1940s and 1950s. Now the neighborhood is being born again.