It looks the part

A photo taken in Denver a week or two ago, on Stout and 14th. This old building currently houses a "gentlemen's cabaret", but doesn't it look as if it started out as a place of ill repute to begin with? A little research tells me that it was built in 1909. To me it looks exactly like a fictional whorehouse out of a 1950s western. The lurid paint colors add to the effect. I read somewhere once that Victorian buildings were usually painted a shocking palette of bright colors, so I suppose the current paint job is fitting.