WEST BADEN- Prepare to step back in time and explore the Gilded Age at West Baden Springs!
Rub shoulders with some of the rich, famous, and notorious guests who visited West Baden Springs during its heyday in the ‘teens and ’20s. On select Saturdays, Twilight Tours explores what it was like to be a West Baden Springs Hotel guest during its grandest era. Costumed interpreters portray famous guests such as golfer Walter Hagen, author Edna Ferber, and the “unsinkable” Molly Brown. Their stories help paint a picture of the guest experience during the hotel’s heyday.
The West Baden Springs Hotel is located at 8538 West Baden Avenue. Admission is $25 for adults and $10 for children, and Indiana Landmark Members are $20. The event will kick off at 7:00 p.m.
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, Orange County, Indiana. It has a 200-foot (61 m) dome over its atrium. Before the completion of the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1955, the dome was 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.
