Colorado School of Mines

This bronze stands where few can read it, inside the fence of the state's youth corrections campus on Lookout Mountain. Bishop George Randall's Episcopal college here had three halls. The 1869 windstorm the plaque gives to the mines building flattened Jarvis Hall; the school of mines got its own building beside it in 1871. When Jarvis and Mathews halls burned in April 1878, the mines school moved into Golden. In 1881 the state took the old grounds for its Industrial School for Boys, a reform school for boys aged seven to sixteen.

What the plaque says

On this site stood the first building of the Colorado School of Mines Built in 1866 as part of Jarvis Hall, through the efforts of Bishop George Randall and the Episcopal Church. The building was destroyed by a wind- storm, August 12, 1869. Rebuilt 1870. The School of Mines became a terri- torial institution through deeding of property and by legislative act of Feb. 9, 1874. The school was maintained here until 1879, when it was moved to its present location in Golden. Erected by The State Historical Society of Colorado from the William A. Braiden Foundation and by the Mount Lookout Chapter, D.A.R. 1949

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dinosaur Ridge — 3.9 mi
  A hogback near Morrison with the bones of 1877 on one flank and the footprints a road crew blasted open in 1937 on the other.
• Red Rocks Amphitheatre — 5.4 mi
  Walker's Garden of the Titans, finished by the CCC between Ship Rock and Creation Rock and dedicated on June 15, 1941.
• Colorado State Capitol — 12 mi
  A capitol of Colorado granite, marble, onyx and gold, with three different steps claiming to stand exactly a mile high.
• Central City Opera House — 17 mi
  Built by a mining town for itself in 1878, outshone by Tabor within four years, and reopened in 1932 with Lillian Gish.

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• Manhattan Beach — 8.5 mi
• Camp Weld — 10 mi