This spot in Lakewood once belonged to the JCRS...Jewish Consumptives’ Relief Society, a place where patients came in the early 1900s seeking fresh air and treatment for tuberculosis. Today, the campus is home to the Rocky Mountain College of Art Design… and apparently giant insect showdowns! From sanatorium to sci-fi sculpture garden...Colorado history never fails to surprise. The real question is: what do YOU think is happening here? . . . ------------------------------------- #LakewoodColorad

It took five tries over seventeen years for Colorado to become a state. Why did four attempts fail, and the fifth succeed? That’s the story behind 38th Star: Colorado Becomes the Centennial State, an exhibition now on view at the History Colorado Center. Statehood established much of what we know and love about Colorado—our shape, our name, our state symbols, the educational institutions we still have today. But not everyone supported statehood 150 years ago. The process of statehood was shaped