WEBVTT 00:00:11.911 --> 00:00:15.248 >> HERE'S WHAT'S MAKING NEWS 00:00:15.248 --> 00:00:16.483 AROUND INDIANA. 00:00:16.483 --> 00:00:19.252 WITH COVID-19 SOMEWHAT 00:00:19.252 --> 00:00:20.387 COMPLICATING FOLKS ABILITY TO 00:00:20.387 --> 00:00:21.621 TRAVEL OVER THE LAST YEAR, SOME 00:00:21.621 --> 00:00:23.123 HOOSIERS ARE FINDING THE BEST 00:00:23.123 --> 00:00:24.858 PLACES TO GET AWAY FOR A QUICK 00:00:24.858 --> 00:00:26.826 REPRIEVE ARE RIGHT HERE IN 00:00:26.826 --> 00:00:28.962 INDIANA. IN THIS CASE, A 00:00:28.962 --> 00:00:29.529 HISTORIC PLACE, IN SOUTHERN 00:00:29.529 --> 00:00:30.363 INDIANA. 00:00:30.363 --> 00:00:31.398 AROUND INDIANA REPORTER 00:00:31.398 --> 00:00:34.834 MARY-RACHEL REDMAN HAS MORE. 00:00:34.834 --> 00:00:36.903 >> IT WAS ONCE CALLED THE EIGHTH 00:00:36.903 --> 00:00:40.373 WONDER OF THE WORLD, WEST BADEN 00:00:40.373 --> 00:00:40.774 SPRINGS HOTEL. 00:00:40.774 --> 00:00:45.245 >> FOR YOU, TODAY, IN 2021, TO 00:00:45.245 --> 00:00:48.114 SEE THIS BUILDING, IT IS THE 00:00:48.114 --> 00:00:50.083 EXACT SIZE THAT IT WAS WHEN IT 00:00:50.083 --> 00:00:52.986 WAS BUILT IN 1902. 00:00:52.986 --> 00:00:55.822 >> THIS 200-FOOT DOME, BIGGER 00:00:55.822 --> 00:00:58.491 AND MORE GRAND THAN ANY OF THE 00:00:58.491 --> 00:00:59.492 FAMOUS DOMES IN EUROPE. 00:00:59.492 --> 00:01:01.161 >> YOU CAN IMAGINE PEOPLE COMING 00:01:01.161 --> 00:01:03.029 IN, UP THE FRONT STEPS, WALKING 00:01:03.029 --> 00:01:05.799 INTO THE LOBBY, AND JUST LOOKING 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:05.965 UP. 00:01:05.965 --> 00:01:07.801 >> AND BEING TRANSPORTED BACK TO 00:01:07.801 --> 00:01:10.136 A FASCINATING CHAPTER OF INDIANA 00:01:10.136 --> 00:01:10.403 HISTORY. 00:01:10.403 --> 00:01:14.407 >> THERE WAS A RECEPTION FOR 00:01:14.407 --> 00:01:16.376 ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HELD RIGHT 00:01:16.376 --> 00:01:18.678 HERE AT THE WEST BADEN HOTEL. 00:01:18.678 --> 00:01:21.181 >> FROM POLITICAL HEAVY WEIGHTS 00:01:21.181 --> 00:01:23.683 TO CELEBRITIES, DREW THE RICH 00:01:23.683 --> 00:01:25.218 AND FAMOUS FROM AROUND THE 00:01:25.218 --> 00:01:28.288 WORLD, THE VISION OF THIS GRAND 00:01:28.288 --> 00:01:31.324 HOTEL WAS A HOOSIER, SINCLAIR OF 00:01:31.324 --> 00:01:31.891 SALEM, INDIANA. 00:01:31.891 --> 00:01:35.895 >> HE WAS THE ONE WHO REALLY SAW 00:01:35.895 --> 00:01:39.065 IT WAS BEING A GREAT INVESTMENT. 00:01:39.065 --> 00:01:41.167 THERE WAS A BICYCLE PONY TRACK 00:01:41.167 --> 00:01:42.836 THAT MR. SINCLAIR HAD BUILT, ONE 00:01:42.836 --> 00:01:45.205 THIRD OF A MILE AROUND. HE BUILT 00:01:45.205 --> 00:01:46.906 THAT TO ENCOURAGE PROFESSIONAL 00:01:46.906 --> 00:01:48.875 BASEBALL TEAMS TO COME TO WEST 00:01:48.875 --> 00:01:50.176 BADEN FOR SPRING TRAINING. 00:01:50.176 --> 00:01:52.579 >> THE CHICAGO CUBS WERE THE 00:01:52.579 --> 00:01:58.318 FIRST IN 1908, THE CARDINALS, 00:01:58.318 --> 00:02:00.987 WHITE SOX, REDS AND THE 00:02:00.987 --> 00:02:03.022 PHILLIES. SPEAKING OF THE 00:02:03.022 --> 00:02:05.758 GROUND, WEST BADEN ENCOMPASSES 00:02:05.758 --> 00:02:07.327 100 ACRES THAT STILL LOOK VERY 00:02:07.327 --> 00:02:09.329 MUCH THE SAME AS THEY DID 100 00:02:09.329 --> 00:02:09.896 YEARS AGO. 00:02:09.896 --> 00:02:11.531 >> THE WATER. 00:02:11.531 --> 00:02:13.299 >> THE MINERAL WATER THAT MADE 00:02:13.299 --> 00:02:15.201 THIS PLACE SO FAMOUS, PEOPLE 00:02:15.201 --> 00:02:17.770 CAME HERE JUST FOR THAT WATER, 00:02:17.770 --> 00:02:19.772 BECAUSE IT WOULD MAKE THEM FEEL 00:02:19.772 --> 00:02:20.006 BETTER. 00:02:20.006 --> 00:02:22.041 >> YEARS LATER IT WAS DISCOVERED 00:02:22.041 --> 00:02:23.810 THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER WATER 00:02:23.810 --> 00:02:28.081 ACTUALLY CONTAINED TRACES OF 00:02:28.081 --> 00:02:28.348 LITHIUM. 00:02:28.348 --> 00:02:29.149 >> HOW MANY SPRINGS? 00:02:29.149 --> 00:02:30.783 >> THERE WERE FOUR SPRINGS ON 00:02:30.783 --> 00:02:31.284 THE PROPERTY. 00:02:31.284 --> 00:02:33.052 >> IF I WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE 00:02:33.052 --> 00:02:34.988 WHEN THIS WAS ACTIVE, HOW WOULD 00:02:34.988 --> 00:02:35.588 THIS HAVE WORKED? 00:02:35.588 --> 00:02:37.891 >> OKAY. YOU WOULD HAVE ENTERED, 00:02:37.891 --> 00:02:39.025 THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A PLATFORM 00:02:39.025 --> 00:02:41.528 AND THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A 00:02:41.528 --> 00:02:44.130 CURBED STAIRCASE ON BOTH SIDES 00:02:44.130 --> 00:02:46.232 TO ANOTHER PLATFORM LOWER, OF 00:02:46.232 --> 00:02:48.801 COURSE, AND THEN A SECOND SET OF 00:02:48.801 --> 00:02:51.271 STEPS TO THE BASIN, WE CALL IT, 00:02:51.271 --> 00:02:55.508 WHERE THE WATER ACTUALLY CAME UP 00:02:55.508 --> 00:02:58.378 NATU 00:02:58.378 --> 00:02:58.678 NATURALLY. 00:02:58.678 --> 00:03:00.680 >> THIS IS THE MAIN ENTRANCE OF 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:02.182 THE WEST BADEN SPRINGS HOTEL. 00:03:02.182 --> 00:03:04.384 >> WHAT IS UP TOP? 00:03:04.384 --> 00:03:06.953 >> AT THE VERY TOP, WE CALL THAT 00:03:06.953 --> 00:03:10.356 THE DRUM. AND INSIDE THAT DRUM 00:03:10.356 --> 00:03:12.592 WHERE THE GIRDERS HAVE BEEN 00:03:12.592 --> 00:03:15.295 RIVETED INTO IS THE MYSTERIOUS 00:03:15.295 --> 00:03:15.828 ANGEL ROOM. 00:03:15.828 --> 00:03:17.730 >> NOW WE HEAD UP TO THE ROOF OF 00:03:17.730 --> 00:03:19.566 THE WEST BADEN SPRINGS HOTEL. 00:03:19.566 --> 00:03:22.235 >> I FEEL LIKE I'M IN A 00:03:22.235 --> 00:03:25.138 DIFFERENT COUNTRY. THIS IS 00:03:25.138 --> 00:03:25.471 UNBELIEVABLE. 00:03:25.471 --> 00:03:29.008 >> TO SEE WHAT VERY FEW GET TO 00:03:29.008 --> 00:03:34.981 SEE, A SMALL ROOM SHROUDED IN 00:03:34.981 --> 00:03:35.248 MYSTERY. 00:03:35.248 --> 00:03:36.749 >> WOW! OH. 00:03:36.749 --> 00:03:39.519 I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE THIS. 00:03:39.519 --> 00:03:42.455 NOBODY KNOWS WHO PAINTED THESE 00:03:42.455 --> 00:03:45.091 ANGELS, IT'S BEEN A MYSTERY MORE 00:03:45.091 --> 00:03:46.759 THAN 100 YEARS. THERE WAS TALK 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.428 ABOUT CIRCUS WORKERS, OR 00:03:48.428 --> 00:03:50.597 SOLDIERS THAT CAME WHEN IT WAS A 00:03:50.597 --> 00:03:51.731 MAKE SHIFT HOSPITAL.