Mineral Springs Hotel Appears on Indiana Landmarks 10 Most Endangered List

August 2025

Hoping to boost local tourism and compete with nearby resorts at French Lick and West Baden Springs, a group of local businessmen constructed the Mineral Springs Hotel in 1895. 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 Mineral Springs Hotel is one of the most architecturally distinctive buildings on Paoli’s courthouse square, but damage from spring storms has heightened the need for urgent action to secure the structure and identify a plan for its future.

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