McNamara, Charles

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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 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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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.