Jarvis Hall was a Colorado liberal arts, grammar and military college from 1870–1904. Initiated in 1868 by Bishop George Maxwell Randall of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named after benefactor George A. Jarvis. The 1878-1882 building in Golden, Colorado remains as a private residence, and the 1882-1904 site near Denver is part of the Lowry Campus.

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The first Jarvis Hall building under construction in

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, was blown down by an 1869 windstorm, 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 was

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's first collegiate institute. Two other buildings were added to what was called the

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, which

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and St. Matthew Divinity, an Episcopalian seminary, flanked the central Jarvis Hall. 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 the ''History of Rome'', ''Tyndale's Lectures'' and ''Library of Wonders''. Graduates included Francis William Loveland and architect James H. Gow, and a fire caused by a defective flue burned Jarvis Hall down on April 4, 1878. After an arson attack on sister school Matthews Hall four days later, professor in charge

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decided to combine the schools as one. Jarvis Hall was temporarily relocated to the Loveland 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

Episcopal Church members in

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succeeded in moving Jarvis Hall near the city in 1882 where it resumed as a boys school. The Jarvis Hall Military School in Montclair, Colorado burned down in 1904, and the site was subsequently used as a military airfield (

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and until the 1990s when it closed and was redeveloped).

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