West Baden Springs Hotel, French Lick, Indiana 2
by Steve Gass
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West Baden Springs Hotel, French Lick, Indiana 2
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Steve Gass
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Inside the Atrium dome at West Baden Springs hotel in West Baden/French Lick, Indiana.
The West Baden Springs Hotel, part of the French Lick Resort Casino, is a national historic landmark hotel in West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana. It is known for the 200-foot (61 m) dome covering its atrium. Prior to the completion of the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1955, the hotel had the largest free-spanning dome in the United States. From 1902 to 1913 it had the largest in the world. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the hotel became a National Historic Landmark in 1987. It is a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and one of the hotels in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Hotels of America program.
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May 16th, 2019
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