This museum compound includes facsimile Ute tipis, the 1871 log cabin which served as the area's first post office at the Los Pinos Ute Agency, and the one-room Paragon School (1905) with an elaborate two-story brick bell tower. The D&RG's Gunnison and Sargent depots and a six-car D&RG narrow-gauge train round out the collection. The museum also owns the Aberdeen Quarry (1879), 7 miles southwest on South Beaver Creek, which produced the gray granite skin of the Colorado State Capitol.