Chalybeate Springs Hotel Springhouse

Chalybeate Springs Hotel Springhouse
Location 2327 Chalybeate Rd., near Smiths Grove, Kentucky
Coordinates 37°07′35″N 86°14′06″W / 37.12639°N 86.23500°W / 37.12639; -86.23500 (Chalybeate Springs Hotel Pumphouse)Coordinates: 37°07′35″N 86°14′06″W / 37.12639°N 86.23500°W / 37.12639; -86.23500 (Chalybeate Springs Hotel Pumphouse)
NRHP reference # 100002154[1]
Added to NRHP March 5, 2018

The Chalybeate Springs Hotel Springhouse, near Smiths Grove, Kentucky, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.[1]

It is "a modest one-story building constructed circa 1875-1899, the only remaining structure on grounds where a rural mineral springs hotel and resort once stood. Until the 1940s, scores of mineral springs resorts in Kentucky treated tuberculosis patients, as doctors believed fresh air and mineral waters had a curative effect. The construction of the state’s six TB hospitals in the 1940s, and the advent of penicillin, rendered these mineral springs resorts obsolete, and today few remnants remain."[2]

It was nominated by a Western Kentucky University student.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Weekly listings". National Park Service. March 9, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Historic Preservation Review Board to consider 14 nominations to National Register, one is in Bellevue". Northern Kentucky Tribune. December 19, 2017.
  3. ↑ "WKU student successfully nominates property to the National Register". March 13, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
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