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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Snowball Fight at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, 1937 February 20
Three women patients participate in a snowball fight at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The women are playing 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 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.