West Baden Springs Hotel

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The West Baden Springs Hotel, formerly the West Baden Inn, is part of the French Lick Resort and is a national historic landmark hotel in West Baden Springs, Indiana. It has a 200-foot (61 m) dome over its atrium.”
Wikipedia article West Baden Springs Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 18 National Register listings published here for Orange County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. W of IN 56, West Baden, 47469
When was it listed? June 1974
Category. building
Township. French Lick township
Architect. Harrison Albright
National Register reference number. 74000016 - 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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of West Baden Springs Hotel between 2000 and 2019, burning about 110 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SPURGEON
8 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	56 S CURVE
9 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Hoosier National Forest	ROLAND FIRE
27 April 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	CASINO
2 April 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	ROLAND POWER FIRE
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Hoosier National Forest	STEVENS SAWMILL
28 March 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	GOLF BALL
24 March 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	WEST 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 West Baden 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cave Quarries, Inc.	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
West Baden National Bank	0.2 miles	1993
Oxford Hotel	0.2 miles	2001
Homestead Hotel	0.2 miles	1998
Dixie Garage	0.3 miles	2001
First Baptist Church	0.4 miles	1994
French Lick Springs Hotel	0.9 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000016 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Orange County	All 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.