State Home and Training School (Teller Institute for Indians)

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.