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Photograph of French Lick Springs Hotel
Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

French Lick Springs Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The French Lick Springs Hotel is a major resort hotel that is a part of the French Lick Resort complex in Orange County, Indiana. The historic hotel in the national historic district at French Lick was initially known as a mineral spring health spa and for its trademarked Pluto Water.”

Wikipedia article French Lick Springs Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 8670 West IN 56, French Lick, 47432
  • When was it listed? September 2003
  • Category. district
  • Township. French Lick township
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03000972 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of French Lick Springs Hotel between 1995 and 2019, burning about 113 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism12 acresHoosier National ForestSPURGEON
8 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHoosier National Forest56 S CURVE
9 April 2005Recreation and ceremony10 acresHoosier National ForestROLAND FIRE
27 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresHoosier National ForestCASINO
2 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHoosier National ForestROLAND POWER FIRE
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresHoosier National ForestSTEVENS SAWMILL
28 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestGOLF BALL
24 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BADEN RESTART

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of French Lick Springs Hotel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cave Quarries, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this property

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names French Lick, the town this property stands in, in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 6 flash flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2001LightningFrench Lick$75,000A house was destroyed in a fire caused by lightning.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick$20,000The public reported trees and power poles down in the area.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick$5,000A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report of a roof blown off a gas station due to severe thunderstorm winds.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick$1,000Power poles were broken.
April 2026Flash FloodFrench Lick-There was a water rescue after a car ended up in a creek in French Lick.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-There were multiple trees down just south of French Lick along State Road 145.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-Trees down in French Lick.
June 2023HailFrench Lick-One inch hail was reported at the French Lick Resort.
June 2023HailFrench Lick-A picture of large hail was on social media.
August 2023Tornado (EF1)French Lick-The tornado began along S Indiana Ave where several large hardwood trees had branches snap towards the east. Some homes saw side wall paneling damage as well as roofing cover damage. Damage continued along W Summit Circle Dr where several more large hardwoods were uprooted and snapped.||The main area of damage is located just south of the downtown area of French Lick on Skyline Drive. This is an area of higher elevation that saw multiple large hardwood trees snapped, some houses saw shingles and side paneling damage. This is where the highest wind speeds of 107 mph would have occurred based on damage making this tornado an EF1.The tornado then made its way northeast to S Summit St where one home saw significant sidewall damage on both its north and south side, as well as paneling damage.||The tornado then tracked southeast towards W County Road 100 S where it appeared to weaken. Several smaller hardwoods saw their limbs broken off and debris was spread out towards the north. A small sandbox outbuilding had its roof torn off and|debris fell just slightly east of the structure. Surrounding trees were bent towards the east and northeast. The winds in this area topped out at 85 mph based on the damage seen.
March 2016HailFrench Lick-A trained spotter reported hail 1.75 inches in diameter.
June 2015Flash FloodFrench Lick-A law enforcement official relayed to the NWS that because of torrential rainfall, there were county roads flooded with high water flowing over.
April 2014Flash FloodFrench Lick-Flash flooding briefly closed Indiana State Highway 56 in French Lick.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-Power lines were downed along State Road 56 in French Lick.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-Trees and power lines were down across the city of French Lick.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-A tree was blown down across a power line.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-Thunderstorm winds brought down a few trees. Near French Lick, one falling tree took a power line down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-Several trees reported down across French Lick and Paoli.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-A few trees were downed.
September 2006Flash FloodFrench Lick-Monon Road was closed by high water.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-A 60 mph wind gust was measured in the Patoka Lake area.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust near Patoka Lake.
May 2002Flash FloodFrench Lick-Water covered roads in and near the town of French Lick.
February 1999HailFrench Lick-Dime size hail fell in French Lick
April 2009HailFrench Lick-no account filed
June 2007HailFrench Lick-no account filed
April 2007HailFrench Lick-no account filed
May 2006HailFrench Lick-no account filed
May 2003HailFrench Lick-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-no account filed
December 2001Flash FloodFrench Lick-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindFrench Lick-no account filed
May 1996HailFrench Lick-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
French Lick Methodist Episcopal Church0.4 miles2026
Dixie Garage0.7 miles2001
First Baptist Church0.8 miles1994
West Baden Springs Hotel0.9 miles1974
West Baden National Bank0.9 miles1993
Homestead Hotel0.9 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000972 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange CountyAll 18 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.