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The Heller Center sits on 34-acres of pristine Colorado landscape. The land and the three Pueblo-Revival style buildings on it were the gift of Dorothy (Dot) and Larry Heller, who lived on the property until Dorothy’s passing in 1999. Larry was a well-known painter and sculptor who depicted, with a telltale cinematic aesthetic, life in the West. He also contributed significantly to the US propaganda during WWII. The Heller Center maintains and manages a significant collection of Larry’s works, often displaying them on the property. Dot was one of the first women to work for the Colorado Spring police department as what was then called a “Social Investigator,” specializing in domestic abuse and child endangerment. It was Dot who conceived of the space as a humanities center and who determined the diverse disciplines that now make up the contributing departments.