Texas Pavilion for Women (Lakewood, Colo.)
Biography
Its inscriptions: Cornice (The Texas Pavilion for Women); cornerstone (Erected by the citizens of Texas, 5687 - 1927); recent RMCAD sign viewed November 17, 2009 (Texas Building). Short walking tour, 2008: #1 (Texas Building ... In 1927, the Texas Pavilion for Women opened to house the women's dormitory. In 1954 it became a treatment center for patients with advanced cancer.) Use for: Texas Building, Texas Pavilion.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Limousine in Front of Texas Pavilion at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1940-1950
Limousine in Front of Texas Pavilion for Women at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1940-1950
An unidentified woman shakes hands with a physician in front of a limousine belonging to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The limousine is parked in front of the Texas Pavilion for Women Building. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.