by Guest Historian Paul Haseman
(see part 1)
The initial staff of Mines included William Loveland, President of the Board of Trustees and Edward Berthoud, Registrar. On the faculty, the “Professor in Charge” was E. J. Mallett, while George West taught Military Tactics and Edward Berthoud taught Civil Engineering and Geology. Rev. Bellam was the principal of Jarvis Hall and faculty Professor of English.
A lesser known faculty member was Rev. Arthur Lakes, who taught Hand Drawing and Drafting. Lakes later became renown as a geologist and in 1880, with Berthoud’s sponsorship, became head of the CSM Geology Department. His initial geology collection in 1872 in Jarvis Hall became the heart of the now Mines Museum. Mines’ library, Arthur Lakes Library, is named in his honor.
The building for the Mines School was not auspicious and early in 1878, Mines moved its lecture hall and laboratory to the upper floor of the Loveland Building at 12th and Washington Street, owned by William Loveland, the President of the Mines Board of Trustees (Transcript 20 Feb 1878). The remainder of Mines activity followed shortly thereafter necessitated by fires of suspicious origin, which destroyed the adjacent Jarvis Hall and Matthews Hall on 4 and 6 April 1878, respectively. (Golden Weekly Globe, 31 December 1881). As such, Mines’ dependency on Jarvis Hall as its room and board facility was gone, making the old building untenable.
Mines appealed to the Legislature and money was appropriated to construct the Mines School in downtown Golden on a small plot of land (150’ x 150’) donated by Golden citizens. The new building opened on 13 October 1880 at the southwest corner of 15th and Arapahoe. This original campus building was twice expanded and renamed the Chemistry Bldg. It was later razed and replaced by newer Hill Hall.
The original Mines building at the south end of Ford Road was then re-designated in 1881 as the State Industrial School for Boys for rehabilitation of “incorrigible young men between the ages of 7 and 16.” (Golden HPB 2003). The school is now titled Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center.
Paul Haseman and Donna Anderson are co-authors of a book called “Golden Rocks! The Geology and Mining History of Golden, Colorado,” which is available as a free download, courtesy of the authors and the Colorado School of Mines Library.
