Main Medical Building (Spivak, Colo.)
Sources
Sanatorium, Volume 16, Number 3 (July-September, 1922): p. 27 photo caption (The Main Medical Building. Erected in 1921 ... Dedicated ... July 9, 1922); p. 27 report (This new building is the culmination of our nation-wide campaign to repair the loss we suffered when fire destroyed the New York Ladies' Auxiliary Building, then the largest structure on our grounds ... To commemorate their work and to perpetuate the foundation they laid in their pavilion which was destroyed by fire, the central wing will always be known as the New York Ladies' Auxiliary Infirmary); p. 28 Building Committee report (Medical Building--Contains executive offices of the Sanatorium proper, and the seat of all medical activities.Contains surgical divison, operating rooms, sterilizing room and surgical wash room. Dental division contains dental waiting room and dental room proper. Physicians offices, medical library, clinic rooms, X-ray department, nose and throat rooms.) Sanatorium, Volume 16, Number 4 (October-December, 1922): p. 58 (The New York Ladies Auxiliary, JCRS, Main Medical Building ... New York Ladies Auxiliary Main Medical Building ); p. 63 table of buildings erected (Main Medical Building, erected by New York Ladies' Auxiliary, JCRS; North Wing Main Medical Building, erected by the St. Louis Ladies' Auxiliary, JCRS) Short walking tour, 2008: #11 (New York Building (Built 1922). This grand structure is by far the largest on the campus, and was built with funds from the New York Ladies [sic] Auxiliary which was founded in 1906 as the first organized Chapter supporting the Center. The New York Building served as the men’s hospital, with a deck built on the back so that the beds could be rolled outside. At the top of this building is the Tower of Hope, long a symbol or the original Jewish Consumptive [sic] Relief Society Campus.)
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Remodeling of the New York Building at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, circa 1946
The New York Building during remodeling, on the campus of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS). The JCRS was a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients that was founded in 1904 by a group of immigrant Jewish workingmen along with the support of several leading physicians and rabbis in Denver, Colorado. The sanatorium was located on West Colfax Avenue just outside of Denver.