Texas Pavilion for Women (Lakewood, Colo.)
Organization
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 1 Collection or Record:
View of the Texas Building with Tents at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, between 1950-1970
Item
Identifier: B063.03.0034.0004.00001
Abstract
The Texas Building on the campus of the American Medical Center, which was formerly the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). Some of the original tent cottages are visible in front of the building, while the Rocky Mountains are seen in the background. 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...
Dates:
between 1950-1970