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.