Built in 1872 by Senator Henry Teller and once one of the finest hotels in the West, the Teller House hosted President Ulysses S. Grant in 1873 — silver bars were laid as a sidewalk for him to walk across, a detail every guide will mention. The interior retains much of its original Victorian decor: heavy wood panelling, stained glass, and the famously walked-on barroom floor portrait.
The building functions today as a museum and event space attached to the Opera House complex; tours are offered in summer and tie naturally into a visit to the opera. It is one of the few intact Victorian luxury hotels surviving in the Colorado mountains.