West Baden Springs Resort (West Baden, Indiana)
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2020
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A marvel of engineering and history, the West Baden Resort had the largest dome in the world until 1913, and the largest in the United States until 1955: and it still stands in the heart of Southern Indiana! Presidents, celebrities and even gangsters made it their home away from home. It was said that any European visitor, to the United States, would visit West Baden if they were anyone. And despite being secluded, and many miles from a major city, up to 12 trains a day brought them here.
West Baden Springs Resort architecture, and gardens, are a beautiful sight to behold. They have their own trolley rail system, that runs all day until 10pm, and several street trolleys that run 24 hours a day, between the hotel and nearby French Lick Resort. It’s easy to get around, and certainly a place you can take many beautiful pictures!
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When I visited West Baden, this place was literally in ruins. What an amazing transformation. I hope to see it in person again someday, along with the beautiful countryside of southern Indiana! Thank you for sharing!
My pleasure! It was a remarkable transformation for sure
So happy to see this video. My mom, sister and I all took a short vacation to this area sometime around 2009. I didn’t realize at the time that it would be the last time we would ever be vacationing together. They both are gone now. It brought back so many good memories. Thank you for some happiness in my day!
My sincere pleasure, Sharon! I always love hearing that a video has brought back good memories. After college, and before I got married, my Mother and I toured Indiana extensively, and had so many adventures! I smile when I go to these places again, or when I’m sitting back, watching one of these and remembering good times.
I have a video of West Baden when it was in a nearly condemned state, and the Cook family was working hard to bring it back. Such a difference! Have yet to edit it, but you would not believe all the work they had to do!
The stables at West Baden is jaw dropping. The handler brought out the enormous black Clydesdale at my husbands request (our anniversary) which was the most beautiful horse I have ever seen in person in my entire life. The back drop of the land was just as stunning.
I’m hoping to get back and finish French Lick and potentially the stables, if they’ll let me! Just a really fun, interesting place
@@AdventureswithRoger I'm sure they will let u in, unless they flood again lol. I stayed at the Frenchlick Resort Hotel and hubby and I walked the property at West Baden no problem. If I remember correctly we could have paid to ride the horse mabe it was too chilly at the time or better yet we had a tee time we couldn't miss. The course are amazing!
I live about 20 minutes from the hotel and have visited it and the dome many times it is absolutely beautiful but the drive there through the national forest is equally beautiful in a different way
Totally agree! I’m down there several times a month and use West Baden as a basecamp
Awesome place to visit. Really neat to visit hotel at Christmas time
It really is!
Loved being able to tour it so many times during it's resurgence. The elephant barn, the bowling alley, golfing off the patio, and the center of the atrium coming down as a stage are all stories of it's past. What a beautiful place. Somewhere I have a picture of my husband standing the in the atrium fireplace and one of my son doing the same at approximately the same age.
I have some old video of when they were renovating it. It was really rough, so bad it could’ve been condemned.
Incredible.. looks 100's of years old😘
Another founded old world building.
It's on the Indiana bucket list oh hell yeah!
Really cool place to visit, especially at Christmas time! Trolleys are free and fun, all year round
I have stayed at this resort and it was absolutly enchanting, The rooms my Family and I stayed in were so elegant and Beautiful and very comfortable. I would recomend for a peaceful relaxing vacation or just a getaway this would be at the top of the list. I cant wait to go back to the resort and do it all over again. Very worth the trip
Truly beautiful place, especially at Christmas! I took video back in 1997, during renovation, and it’s amazing how they restored it. 🙂
It's funny how when you live in one state a lot of of its inhabitants don't get to see a significant portion of it. Granted I was only there twice in a two year span but no one ever mentioned this Hoosier haven to me. I've been checking out your channel. Thank you Roger. I never would've known. 😀
When I moved from central to Southern Indiana, I had Louisville co-workers ask me about tourist attractions, so I started making videos. I’d previously taken so many trips down here, that I thought I knew all there was. But nearly 5 years later, I’m still finding things! When I talk to people in central Indiana, I’m surprised that most have never heard of even the big ones: Clifty Falls, Madison, Falls of the Ohio, Spring Mill, Lincoln Boyhood Home, West Baden, French Lick, Santa Claus. It’s my pleasure to show people places they’ve never seen!
You do a great job the for saving our history . I know someone who lives in Jeffersonville who is much older than I am that has a craps table from the 1920s in French Lick its epic I don't throw the bones the met him years ago through my younger brother who played golf I'm strictly a poker player the golf course West of town about three miles isn't Donald Ross design from the early 1900's like 1908 or 1909 it is unbelievable. One of the windiest places in all of Southern Indiana
Thanks Charles! It’s a labor of love. I enjoy seeing and sharing, and there is a lot to share! I recently spoke to the good people that are building the Clark County Museum, there in Jeffersonville. They have a section about gambling and possess a really nice roulette wheel. It’s going to be an AWESOME County Museum when complete! Can’t wait to go back after we get an all clear
Another lovely video … ❤️
Great job Roger!
Thanks once again!
A really cool hotel I have stayed there
ngl it is very weird to pass this stuff your entire life and not think too much about it
Lots of comments could be made. Fantastic
I'd like to bring Hillside H Hank right here for the day.
Was born there. Haven't been there in a very long time. I wonder if they still have lightning bugs everywhere in the summer?
We did this last summer
@@AdventureswithRoger cool! Have tons of family there me and my mom move down to Florida when I was about five but I always loved it when I went back to visit. My aunt had a place on top of one of the biggest hills that overlooked the forest absolutely beautiful. My mom was from the brace family so had tons of cool cousins to play with.
@@johnsheetz6639 Sounds like wonderful memories!
Does anyone know what the music at the end of the video is called?
Hi Amber! It’s an Apple licensed song called “Romance”.
If you stay here they have shuttle that runs to the casino nextdoor for free
Free road trolley, and also the free electric trolley. Seems like I heard the road trolleys run all night.
@@AdventureswithRoger yes but only from the hotel and casino
@@The_Phill_A_Blunt My favorite memory was parking at the French Lick resort at Christmas, filming the lights and the displays inside, taking a trolley to West Baden, filming the beautiful dome, and coming back
@@AdventureswithRoger last time I stayed there was in early spring and it was beautiful with flowers and landscape, everyone should at least once go there once, they won't be disappointed
@@AdventureswithRoger I only got to go in the dome for a few minutes because I believe someone was doing a wedding in there. It is beautiful and massive
You didn’t mention the history about when it was a Seminary.
No I didn’t, and I even have video of the graves. Another project!
What about the dark history. There are swastika’s all over the building. Explain please
Super easy! Before Adolph Hitler rose to power, and the Nazi party adopted the swastika symbol, it did not have the same meaning at all. It appeared in Native American woven blankets and all over Hindu, Buddhist and other Asian religious buildings.
When West Baden was constructed, way before Hitler, they put the Swastika into the fencing around the porch. I saw them when they were remodeling it from ruins, back around 1997. It was considered a symbol of health and happiness! You’ll now see little green squares where the swastikas are covered. In the atrium, swastikas still exist in the floor tiles, but are so artsy, most people don’t see them.
Here’s an interesting wiki:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Not a dark history about the use of the swastika here, please try to educate yourself before demanding someone else teach you, but I'll try to help, I never knew myself that there is actually more of a positive side than a negative
Watch this video, 1 of many that explain the history.
Mark Felton production, the story behind the imagery. Is the title
Not 1955, 1964
what are some attractions locally to do there?
Several, depending what you’re into!
1. Gambling
2. Spa
3. Splashin’ Safari indoor water park with lazy river
4. Laser zone / mini golf
5. French Lick Railway train ride
6. French Lick indoor go carts and games
7. Golf
8. Horseback riding
9. French Lick Museum
10. West Baden Gardens (in spring)
11. Trip to nearby Shoals to see Jug Rock, the Bluffs of Beaver Bend, and Hindostan Falls
12. Free old trolly between West Baden and French Lick
Patoka Lake, Holiday World, Paoli Peaks, Bluespring Caverns, Indiana Caverns, Marengo Cave, Squire Boone Caverns,Wyandotte Caves, Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial and Lincoln State Park.