Virtual Events
9-10AM Zumba
10-10:30AM Mid-Morning Meditation
Real World Events
8-10AM DeLong Park Weedbusters @ DeLong Park
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM, 1PM, 4PM Wild West Short Tour
10AM-4PM Beginning Quilting Class
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
11:30AM-1PM Library for All @ Golden Library
4-7PM Evening at the Museum @ Golden History Museum
Evening at the Museum, held on the fourth Thursday of each summer month, is a drop-in chance to chat with a curator and participate in real, behind-the-scenes artifact discussions from 5-7PM. Also offered on various evenings will be make-and-take art activities, pioneer games, and more.
6PM Mobility & Transportation Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
MTAB will discuss the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, hear an update on Clear Creek traffic management, and discuss possible changes to downtown traffic.
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6PM GYP Book Club
Tonight’s book: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger
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5:30-7PM Network in Nature with the Golden Chamber @ Triceratops Trail
Join us for a networking walk, while enjoying the great Golden outdoors!
Triceratops Trail is a 1.5-mile, gravel hiking trail located one block east of 6th Avenue and 19th Street in Golden, Colorado. The trail winds between large, vertical walls of sandstone in old clay mining pits. The hike takes about an hour round-trip.
Along the trail are several interpretive stops highlighting the geology and clay mining as well as dinosaur, bird, mammal, insect, and invertebrate tracks and traces. The site is also famous for palm frond and other leaf and plant impressions left behind when this was a delta-like, wet environment.
7:30PM Golden Ghosts & Spirits Tour
7:30PM HAIR @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Live Music
5-8PM Howard Dlugasch @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Mad Dog @ Goosetown Station
5PM Josh Blackburn @ Wrigley’s
6-9PM Derek Hall @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM Chicago Farmers & The FIeldnotes @ New Terrain Brewing
6PM Vada @ Over Yonder
6:30-8:30PM Lucas Wolf @ Tributary Food Hall
7PM Backyard Bluegrass – Blue Canyon Boys @ Columbine Cafe
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
Golden History Moment
153 Years Ago – Cornerstone for Jarvis Hall
The August 25, 1869 – Colorado Transcript commemorated the cornerstone-laying ceremony for Jarvis Hall. This was the first of a trio of buildings called the “Colorado University Schools.” Jarvis Hall was a boys school, teaching liberal arts and military science. Matthews Hall was an Episcopalian seminary, and the third building was called “the School of Mines.” All three were started by Episcopalian Bishop Randall.
Collapse of Jarvis Hall
By mid-October, the brickwork of Jarvis Hall was done and the roof was on, but the windows had not yet been installed. A windstorm occurred in early November and sent the nearly-completed building tumbling to the ground. The building was re-started, finished, and operated until it burned down on April 4, 1978. The fire was believed to have resulted from a faulty flue.
Burning of Jarvis Hall
About mid-day on Thursday last the thrilling fire-alarm rang out, the first one for many a month. The occasion for the alarm proved to be theburning of Jarvis Hall, the Episcopal school for boys located one mile south of town. The fire department was quickly en route for the scene of conflagration, but owing to the distance given over, and the total absence of water within working distance of the building, nothing could be done by the members of the department except to render efficient aid in saving articles of value.
Colorado Transcript – April 10, 1878
Burning of Matthews Hall
Four days later, Matthews Hall was also burned down. That fire was considered to be arson. The Principal for both Jarvis and Matthews decided to combine the two schools into one. For a time, classes were held in the Loveland building at 12th & Washington (now the Old Capitol Grill).
The New Jarvis Hall
By July, the Principal had begun construction of a new Jarvis Hall. The new building was much smaller, suitable only for lodging the principal and his family and providing school rooms on the first floor.
The school room proper occupies the east half of the lower floor of the building, is 10 feet high, and well-lighted by two windows on the side, one in the rear, and a large bay window in the front.
Colorado Transcript, September 4, 1878.
The plan was to construct more buildings around the first as funding became available. However, a new Episcopalian Bishop (successor to Bishop Randall) decided to move the school to Denver in 1882. The Transcript commented on this move in an impressively petulant article:
When Jarvis Hall college was established here in Golden many years ago by the good Bishop Randall, through the generosity of Dr. Jarvis, of Brooklyn, all Denver with its proverbial big-headativeness began kicking and squirming, but to no purpose. When Bishop Spaulding succeeded to the diocese, was their opportunity, and the hounding commenced. The building that had been erected were opportunely destroyed by fire and the bishop thought he had a big thing before him by removing the establishment to Denver, and he certainly would have had the biggest kind of a thing had the majority of the promises been fulfilled. Like many another similar case, however, when the prize had been secured, it was allowed to struggle for itself, and finally dwindled away until now the announcement is made that Jarvis Hall is busted! Well, who cares? They got it away from Golden and that ought to be glory enough for Denver, whether it lived or died.
Colorado Transcript – June 20, 1883
The School of Mines Building
Although the School of Mines building did not burn, the students joined the Matthews and Jarvis pupils in moving to downtown Golden for classes. The school acquired land at 15th and Cheyenne as the school’s permanent home. There were various attempts to “steal” the school over the years, but Golden held fast and it has remained here.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
