Bald Mountain Hot Springs

Bald Mountain Hot Springs
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Main and 1st St., Ketchum, Idaho
Coordinates	43°40′44″N114°21′42″W / 43.67889°N 114.36167°W / 43.67889; -114.36167
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1929
Architect	Tourtellotte & Hummel
Architectural style	Rustic-style
MPS	Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference No.	82000320 [1]
Added to NRHP	November 17, 1982

Bald Mountain Hot Springs in Ketchum, Idaho was a historic resort. Located at Main and 1st St. in Ketchum, the complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. ^[1] In 2003, plans had been approved for a new 80-room hotel complex on the site. ^[2]

The original complex was built as the Bald Mountain Hot Springs Motel in 1929 by Carl E. Brandt, manager of the J.C. Penney store in Hailey, Idaho, who had bought a different, decrepit hot spring resort enterprise northwest of Ketchum in 1827. Rather than fixing that up, he moved the hot water to the new resort location on Main Street in Ketchum. ^[2] The resort included Rustic-style architecture and work by architects Tourtellotte & Hummel. It included the C. E. Brandt Residence, tourist cabins, and the natatorium where people swam in hot springs water piped in from three miles away. ^{[1] [2]}

While the original resort was planned to have 30 tourist cabins, the NRHP listing included just five contributing buildings and one contributing structure on 2 acres (0.81 ha). ^[1] In 2003, three of the historic structures had been moved to a hunting club location near Hagerman, Idaho. ^[2]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Gregory Foley (December 2, 2003). "Reflections on Bald Mountain Lodge's heyday". Archived from the original on July 27, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2013.