Colorado State University
Colorado State University is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". It was founded in 1870 as Colorado Agricultural College and assumed its current name in 1957.
Colorado Agricultural College Campus, 1920 with the Oval, Physics Building, and Guggenheim Hall showing
The Oval today, leading towards the Administration Building
Colorado Agricultural College advertisement
The Lagoon, Rec Center, and Intramural Fields
Fort Collins is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 169,810 at the 2020 census, an increase of 17.94% since 2010. Fort Collins is the principal city of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor. The city is the fourth most populous city in Colorado. Situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, Fort Collins is located 56 mi (90 km) north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. Fort Collins is a midsize college town, home to Colorado State University and Front Range Community College's Larimer campus.
Downtown "Old Town" Fort Collins
Bird's-eye view of Fort Collins in 1899
Fort Collins, facing west (1875)
Poudre Valley Bank, at Linden and Walnut, in Fort Collins (1908)