Teller Institute for Indians
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State Home and Training School (Teller Institute for Indians)
1886. 2800 Rd. D
U.S. Senator Henry M. Teller helped open this school for Ute Indian children whose enrollment peaked in 1907 at 270 students. The 160-acre, tree-shaded campus was converted to a state home and training facility for the mentally and physically impaired in 1920. The pastoral campus is centered on the original two-story building of the Teller Institute with its two-story Doric portico. This noble and prevailing elder is surrounded by smaller new buildings of the same light-colored brick.
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