File:GENERAL VIEW OF GARDENS AND PAVILIONS - West Baden Springs Hotel, State Route 56, West Baden Springs, Orange County, IN HAER IND,59-BADW,1-12.tif

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GENERAL VIEW OF GARDENS AND PAVILIONS - West Baden Springs Hotel, State Route 56, West Baden Springs, Orange County, IN
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GENERAL VIEW OF GARDENS AND PAVILIONS - West Baden Springs Hotel, State Route 56, West Baden Springs, Orange County, IN
Description
Albright, Harrison; Sinclair, Lee Wiley; Westcott, Oliver J; Boucher, Jack E; Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Depicted place Indiana; Orange County; West Baden Springs
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER IND,59-BADW,1-12
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  • Significance: The West Baden Springs Hotel is notable as an engineering achievement and as a testament to an opulent social era. The main building was erected in 1901-02 after a disastrous fire destroyed an earlier hotel on the site. The energetic owner of the hotel, Lee Wiley Sinclair, has been given credit for the general idea of constructing a domed circular court surrounded by guest rooms. The actual design was carried out by a young West Virginia architect, Harrison Albright. The dome was designed by Oliver J. Westcott of the Illinois Steel Company in Chicago. The hotel is a six story structure with a 16-sided exterior enclosing two rings of rooms around the domed court which rises the full height of the building. Its principle feature is the dome itself, which is supported 24 steel ribs, and has a diameter of 195 feet. At the time of its construction, its owners, supported by the leading technical journals, claimed it to be the largest dome in the world. The great size and elegant engineering of the dome make the West Baden Springs Hotel a climax in the great era of experimentation in the use of metal and glass during the 19th century. The building also played a significant role in American social history, attracting many celebrities during the first three decades of the 20th century. Guest came at first for the mineral waters available in West Baden, but increasingly during the 1910's and 20's the main attraction at the hotel was gambling. After the hotel closed its doors during the Depression, the building became a Jesuit seminary. Since 1967, it has housed a private college.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-14
  • Survey number: HAER IN-2
  • Building/structure dates: 1902 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 74000016.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/in0122.photos.065505p
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Object location38° 33′ 55.01″ N, 86° 36′ 40″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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