McNamara, Charles

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The building stood at the corner of Irving Street and West Colfax Avenue. Many of the Jewish children living in the west Colfax neighborhood went to Cheltenham. The Cheltenham School was demolished in 1978.

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Exterior view of the former Congregation Oheb Zedek known as the Marion St. Shul. At the time of the photograph the building was Cleaves Memorial CME Church.

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Exterior of Albert and Bella Groussman's grocery store, now known as the "Mercantile Café," on the 9th Street Park, Auraria Campus, Denver, Colorado.

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Exterior of Albert and Bella Groussman's grocery store, now known as the "Mercantile Café,'' on the "9th Street Park" on the Auraria Higher Education Complex.

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Exterior of Albert and Bella Groussman's grocery store, now known as the "Mercantile Café, on the 9th Street Park, Auraria Campus, Denver, Colorado.''

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Exterior of Albert and Bella Groussman's grocery store, now known as the "Mercantile Café, on the 9th Street Park, Auraria Campus, Denver, Colorado.''

Abstract The Hebrew Educational Alliance's original building at West Colfax and Meade Street. It was founded in 1932 and became the largest congregation on Denver's west side. The Hebrew Educational Alliance was created as a result of the ''alliance'' between the Beth David Hebrew School Sisterhood and Brotherhood, and the Denver Hebrew Institute. On October 25, 1932, Rabbi Manuel Laderman arrived in Denver to serve as the first Rabbi of the Hebrew Educational Alliance. The combined synagogue and...

Abstract Exterior of the Ostrover Synagogue or ''Ostrover shul'' in the 1970s, when it was occupied by the Platte Valley Action Center. The synagogue was located in and served the west side Jewish community in Denver, Colorado at 14th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard. In the early 1900s, many Jews from Ostrov in Poland emigrated to Denver and formed a community in west Denver called the Ostrovers. They organized the Congregation Ostrover Beth Jacob in 1908. The blond brick building, shown here, was...

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Congregation Zera Abraham was originally organized as a Chassidic Orthodox Jewish congregation in 1877, making it the oldest congregation on the west side of Denver, Colorado. The building shown here at Julian Street and West Conejos Place was the congregation's second home. It was purchased in 1938 from the Workmen's Circle, which originally erected the building as the Labor Lyceum, an educational center. The congregation moved to its third location on Winona Court.

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Many small synagogues, or shuls, were built in Denver, Colorado's west-side with the East European immigrant Jewish community, including Yad Achass, more commonly known as the Rumansche (Romanian) shul. It was organized in 1903, and its second home, pictured here, was at the corner of King Street and Conejos Place.