Mineral Springs Hotel, Paoli, IN
Mineral Springs Hotel, 124 South Court Street, Paoli, Indiana. A group of local businessmen, including Amos Stout, John Maris, S.R. Know, Charles Boyd, and J.P. Throop, built this hotel in 1895 in an effort to promote local tourism. At a time when the town had no electricity, the hotel offered the luxury of electric lighting in each room, courtesy of a steam-powered generator in the basement, and guests could bathe in local mineral waters from a well piped directly into the hotel. The hotel also served as a center of local cultural and recreational life. It had an opera house in the lobby and a bowling alley and pool room in the basement. The hotel had 80 rooms, and continued to operate until 1958. In recent years it has been vacant, and the building is in danger. The building is part of the Paoli Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
Mineral Springs Hotel, Paoli, IN
Mineral Springs Hotel, 124 South Court Street, Paoli, Indiana. A group of local businessmen, including Amos Stout, John Maris, S.R. Know, Charles Boyd, and J.P. Throop, built this hotel in 1895 in an effort to promote local tourism. At a time when the town had no electricity, the hotel offered the luxury of electric lighting in each room, courtesy of a steam-powered generator in the basement, and guests could bathe in local mineral waters from a well piped directly into the hotel. The hotel also served as a center of local cultural and recreational life. It had an opera house in the lobby and a bowling alley and pool room in the basement. The hotel had 80 rooms, and continued to operate until 1958. In recent years it has been vacant, and the building is in danger. The building is part of the Paoli Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.