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8AM-2PM COVID Vaccine Clinic @ Golden Heights Park (map)
Vaccines are free, and no insurance, ID, or appointment are required to get vaccinated.
9AM-3PM COVID Vaccine Clinic @ Jeffco Fairgrounds (map)
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9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
5PM Sip and Pour @ Mountain Toad
6-8:30PM Community Sustainability Advisory Board @ City Hall
The Sustainability Board will discuss water conservation, with Deputy Public Works Director Anne Beierle presenting a proposal for a “waste of water” ordinance. They will also consider a Citywide Recycling and Compost Ordinance and a potential ban on single use plastic bags.
8-10PM Trivia Night @ Woody’s Pizza
Live Music
6PM Twenty Hands High Duo @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
6PM David Marais @ Miners Saloon
6:30PM Open Jam/Mic at Over Yonder Brewing
Tomorrow Night:
Spirits with Cocktails
Tomorrow night is your LAST CHANCE to experience Spirits with Cocktails! Purchase tickets here….
Golden History Moment
152 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 the burning 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 kick 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!
