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The Colorado University Schools campus was the multi-collegiate campus spearheaded by the visionary missionary Bishop George Maxwell Randall of the Episcopal church
Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church may refer to:Anglican Communion:* The Episcopal Church in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe....
. Having a ministerial passion for education and seeing great need for it in frontier Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
, Randall first established the Wolfe Hall collegiate school for girls in 1868, then in 1869 received a gift from Charles Clark Welch to begin this collegiate campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
 for boys.






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The Colorado University Schools campus was the multi-collegiate campus spearheaded by the visionary missionary Bishop George Maxwell Randall of the Episcopal church
Episcopal Church

Episcopal Church may refer to:Anglican Communion:* The Episcopal Church in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe....
. Having a ministerial passion for education and seeing great need for it in frontier Colorado
Colorado

The State of Colorado is a U.S. state located in the Mountain States of the United States of America. Colorado may also be considered to be a part of the Western United States and Southwestern United States regions of the United States....
, Randall first established the Wolfe Hall collegiate school for girls in 1868, then in 1869 received a gift from Charles Clark Welch to begin this collegiate campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
 for boys. This land was on a small plateau overlooking Golden
Golden, Colorado

The historic City of Golden is a Colorado municipalities#Home_Rule_Municipality that is the county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, Colorado, United States....
 from the south, now annexed within the city limits. Three colleges were opened by Randall and the Episcopal church here: Jarvis Hall
Jarvis Hall

Jarvis Hall was a liberal arts, grammar and military college at Golden, Colorado spearheaded by missionary Bishop George Maxwell Randall of the Episcopal church in 1869....
 in 1870, Matthews Hall in 1872, and the Colorado School of Mines
Colorado School of Mines

The Colorado School of Mines is a public teaching and research university devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources....
, then known as the Territorial School of Mines, in 1873. Jarvis Hall was a liberal arts, grammar and military school; Matthews Hall was a divinity school to train future Episcopal clergy for the region; and the Bishop strongly felt a School of Mines would be vital to the future of Colorado because of its mining economy. After Randall died in 1873 the campus began to be dismantled, with efforts within the church striving to remove its colleges to Denver. In 1874 the School of Mines was sold to the Territorial government after years of controversy over government support of a church-owned college. On April 4, 1878, Jarvis Hall burned, knocking a hole in the center of the campus, and shortly after on April 8 Matthews Hall was burned by arsonists. This effectively destroyed the campus, as the schools quickly moved to the Loveland Block
Loveland Building and Coors Building

The Loveland Block and Coors Building are a pair of important historic storefront buildings in downtown Golden, Colorado. The Loveland Block, named for pioneer William A.H....
 in downtown Golden, and after a short return by the School of Mines in 1879, it moved to its permanent campus in the city. The campus was fully acquired by the state government in 1880 and the remaining School of Mines building became the nucleus of the Colorado State Industrial School for Boys. The original Mines building was destroyed by fire in 1893.

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  • Colorado School of Mines
    Colorado School of Mines

    The Colorado School of Mines is a public teaching and research university devoted to engineering and applied science, with special expertise in the development and stewardship of the Earth's natural resources....
  • University of Colorado
    University of Colorado System

    The University of Colorado System is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of three campuses: University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and University of Colorado Denver.It is governed by an elected, nine-member Regents of the University of Colorado....