Former home of Colorado Springs Opera House (now Mansion Nightclub)

20 N. Tejon St

In 1893, Taizo Nakashima, one of only five graduates that year, earned his degree from Colorado College. He delivered his required graduation oration, "The Modern Movement Against Metaphysics," on the stage of the Colorado Springs Opera House to a captivated audience of faculty, friends, and fellow students. A native of Japan, Nakashima was the first international student to graduate from CC. As Professor Joan E. Ericson noted, "Two years after his graduation, Taizo Nakashima was described in The Colorado Collegian as 'one of the best students of philosophy and psychology that ever entered the college.'"