Bald Mountain Hot Springs

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Bald Mountain Hot Springs
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LocationMain and 1st St., Ketchum, Idaho
Coordinates 43°40′44″N114°21′42″W / 43.67889°N 114.36167°W / 43.67889; -114.36167
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1929
Architect Tourtellotte & Hummel
Architectural styleRustic-style
MPS Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
NRHP reference No. 82000320 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Gregory Foley (December 2, 2003). "Reflections on Bald Mountain Lodge's heyday". Archived from the original on July 27, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2013.