Jarvis Hall (Colorado)
Jarvis Hallwas a Colorado liberal arts, grammar and military college from 1870–1904. Initiated in 1868 by BishopGeorge Maxwell Randallof the Protestant Episcopal Church[1]and named after benefactorGeorge A. Jarvis.The 1878-1882 building in Golden, Colorado remains as a private residence,[2]and the 1882-1904 site near Denver is part of theLowry Campus.
Golden sites
[edit]The first Jarvis Hall building under construction inGolden, Colorado,was blown down by an 1869 windstorm,[3]on land donated by C. C. Welch. Jarvis provided funding for construction of a second Jarvis Hall building which was dedicated in October 1870. It wasColorado Territory's first collegiate institute. Two other buildings were added to what was called theColorado University Schools,whichSchool of Minesand St. Matthew Divinity, an Episcopalian seminary, flanked the central Jarvis Hall.[4][3]Jarvis donated and solicited donation of books for the Jarvis Hall Library. Annual prizes were awarded at the school year end, funded and chosen by Jarvis. In July 1873, three students won multiple volume sets of theHistory of Rome,Tyndale's LecturesandLibrary of Wonders.[4]
Students includedFrancis William Lovelandand architectJames H. Gow,who became a master designer that three of his works are recognized by theNational Register of Historic Placesfor their architecture. Jarvis Hall in 1873 began one of the earliest collegiate athletic programs in Colorado with its baseball team, which came to be known as the Jarvis Hall White Legs (after the color of its uniforms). The team utilized students from all three colleges on campus, including pitcherArthur Lakes(simultaneously a student at Matthews Hall and professor at the School of Mines) and third baseman Peter T. Dotson who in 1874 made the first discovery of aTyrannosaurus rexfossil in the world. A fire caused by a defective flue burned Jarvis Hall down on April 4, 1878. After an arson attack on sister schoolMatthews Hallfour days later, professor in chargeThomas Lloyd Bellamdecided to combine the schools as one. Jarvis Hall was temporarily relocated to theLoveland Block in downtown Golden,and before the end of 1878 Bellam funded a new Jarvis Hall building (now 921 19th Street in Golden). The 19th Street Jarvis Hall was a liberal arts and commercial college open to women.
Denver
[edit]Episcopal Church members inDenversucceeded in moving Jarvis Hall near the city in 1882 where it resumed as a boys school. The Jarvis Hall Military School inMontclair, Colorado[5]burned down in 1904,[6]and the site was subsequently used as a military airfield (Lowry Air Force BaseinWorld War IIand until the 1990s when it closed and was redeveloped).[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^History of Colorado,retrieved2013-04-01,
In 1868, when Bishop Randall, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, started his proposed university at Golden, he made provision for a school of mines, and the original building yet stands on the grounds HISTORY OF COLORADO 613 of the Industrial School for Boys, about two miles east of the present School of Mines. Jarvis Hall, a general college for boys and young men, and Mathews Hall, the divinity school, were the other institutions in the group. The two halls were destroyed by fire in 1874. The schools were then removed to Denver.
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purchased by the Huckaby family in 2007 to be refurbished as a single-family private residence. Among the notable events at its new home was the marriage by Bellam of favorite student Ella Reynolds to Means in 1879 in the Jarvis Hall parlors.
- ^abThe Jarvis family(transcribe text).1879.Retrieved2013-04-01.
He gave liberally towards the enlargement of the church in that place, and towards the erection of Bronson Hall, one of the buildings of the Episcopal Academy. He aided Bishop Randall in the building of Jarvis Hall at Golden, Colorado, and also to rebuild it after its destruction by a tornado in 1869.
- ^abCaroline Bancroft (October 1949)."George A. Jarvis, of Jarvis Hall: Colorado's New York Friend"(PDF).Colorado Magazine.Vol. XXVI, no. 4. Denver: The State Historical Society of Colorado. p. 282. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on July 28, 2016.RetrievedOctober 6,2016.
- ^ab"Piton | News of Charitable Organizations".
- ^"Full text of" History of Colorado; "".Retrieved2009-11-08.