Today's campus for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is built around the deluxe tuberculosis sanatarium known as the “asylum of the gilded pill.” This state-of-the art sanatarium and its many wealthy patients did much for the local economy before it closed in 1964. The three-story structure was donated to the university as an administration building. It is of uncoursed, stuccoed stone with a flat roof, four corner
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