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.
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Texas Building at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1928
The Texas Pavilion for Women Building on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) opened in 1927. The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish working men along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. It was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver. As of 2009, the Texas Pavilion was being used as part of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.