West Baden Springs Hotel | |
 Dome of the hotel | |
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| Location | West of State Road 56, West Baden Springs, Indiana |
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| Coordinates | 38°34′2″N 86°37′5″W / 38.56722°N 86.61806°W |
| Area | 100 acres (40 ha) |
| Built | 1901 |
| Architect | Harrison Albright; Oliver J. Westcott |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000016[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | June 27, 1974 |
| Designated NHL | February 27, 1987[2] |
The West Baden Springs Hotel, formerly known as the West Baden Inn, is part of the French Lick Resort and 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 was the largest dome 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.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "West Baden Springs Hotel". National Historic Landmarks Program. National Park Service. Archived from the original on December 27, 2010. Retrieved June 5, 2009.