page_title: Tilden School for Teaching Health
section_title: The Main Building
hierarchical_section_title: Tilden School for Teaching Health / The Tilden School for Teaching Health Historic District / The Main Building
caption_attribution_description: English: Clinical Building - Building No 3 The Tilden Health School, Denver,Colorado
context_page_description: The Tilden School for Teaching Health operated from 1916 to 1931 as a private residential teaching institution and sanitarium that offered patients an alternative to the standard medical practices of the day. Located in Denver, Colorado, the school was established to teach and promote the medical theories of its founder, Dr. John Henry Tilden.
context_section_description: The Main Building at 3249 West Fairview Place is the largest structure erected on the Tilden School for Teaching Health campus. The red brick craftsman style influenced structure was constructed in two stages. The Eastern U shaped part of the building was built in 1919 with the western L shaped addition built in 1921 giving the building its E shaped form. Both sections were designed by Architect Harry W.J. Edbrooke.
  The 'spine' of the E is approximately 266-foot-long and 27 feet wide. The wings project 53 feet out from the spine and are 38 feet wide. The wings are separated by 76 feet. The original building footprint is approximately 13, 225 square feet and contained as many as 100 separate patient rooms, a lecture hall, dining hall, sun rooms, and other support spaces.
  
  For a short time in the 1930s, the Main building was used to house 250 indigent elderly men by the Denver Emergency Relief Committee. From 1934 to 1939, it housed the Highland Park Hospital. From 1940 to the early 1970s it was the home of the Offield Convalescence Home. In the 1970s & 1980's the building was occupied by Carefree Guest Home and Highland Living. In 1995, plans began to convert the main building into 36 condo units under the name of Fairview Place Residences/Fairview lofts and demolition of interior non bearing walls began. Attic space was converted to living space with the addition of dormers, entrances were changed and two exterior stair landings and an elevator tower were added.
caption: Clinical Building -  Tilden School of Health, Denver, Colorado c. 1924
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