Sacred Stories

A little piece of local history rests on the current-day Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design campus in Lakewood, once home to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. The Isaac Solomon Synagogue, a modest brick-and-stucco Moorish structure, has fallen into disrepair, its paint peeling and its...

By Susan Froyd

February 8, 2007

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A little piece of local history rests on the current-day Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design campus in Lakewood, once home to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. The Isaac Solomon Synagogue, a modest brick-and-stucco Moorish structure, has fallen into disrepair, its paint peeling and its old stories fading away.

"This little building is too rich in history to lose," says Jennifer Sylman, spokeswoman for a foundation formed to preserve the synagogue. In an effort to get renovation funding rolling (with plans to turn the building into an event center and museum), Sylman and friends are hosting Saving a Sacred Place, an afternoon with live music, historical presentations by former JCRS patients, Kosher noshes and a sale of art books handmade by RMCAD students. Attend from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Rotunda Building, 1600 Pierce Street; admission is $18. Go to www.isaacsolomonsynagogue.org for more information.
Sun., Feb. 11, 1-4 p.m.

Susan Froyd started writing for Westword as the "Thrills" editor in 1992 and never quite left the fold. These days she still freelances for the paper in addition to walking her dogs, enjoying cheap ethnic food and reading voraciously. Sometimes she writes poetry.

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