6places
6businesses
1881oldest
6still open
0gone
4with photos
Hot Springs on When It Was is 6 addresses and the 6 businesses that have occupied them, the oldest from 1881. 6 are still open today. Every entry below opens a page with the full history of that address, and the map lets you slide the year and watch the city change.
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Battle Mountain Sanitarium
500 North 5th Street · 1907–present
Congress built a soldiers' home in Hot Springs specifically so disabled Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans could bathe in and drink…
Evans Plunge
1145 North River Street · 1890–present
Businessman Fred "Big Fred" Evans built a wood, iron, and glass pool house over a cluster of warm mineral springs in 1890, creating what is …
Wind Cave National Park
26611 US Highway 385 · 1881–present
A hole in the prairie that blew a man's hat off in 1881 turned out to be the entrance to the world's first cave ever designated a national p…
Hot Springs Historic District
River Street Historic District · 1890–present
Boomtown Hot Springs rebuilt its downtown almost entirely out of locally quarried pink sandstone in the 1890s, and that same rose-colored sk…
Pioneer Museum
300 North Chicago Street · 1893–present
A sandstone schoolhouse built in 1893 to educate all twelve grades of Hot Springs students now holds the town's pioneer-era relics instead o…
The Mammoth Site
1800 US Highway 18 Bypass · 1974–present
A bulldozer clearing land for a housing subdivision in 1974 broke into a 26,000-year-old sinkhole packed with the bones of dozens of trapped…
Hot Springs, decade by decade
- 1880s
- 1890s
- 1900s
- 1970s
Still here, and gone
Still open (6)
- Wind Cave National Park 1881–present
- Evans Plunge 1890–present
- Hot Springs Historic District 1890–present
- Pioneer Museum 1893–present
- Battle Mountain Sanitarium 1907–present
- The Mammoth Site 1974–present
By kind of place
Museum (2)
The Mammoth Site · Pioneer Museum
National Park (1)
Mineral Springs (1)
Historic District (1)
Historic Landmark (1)
Collections that cover Hot Springs
Every place in Hot Springs (6)
- Battle Mountain Sanitarium 500 North 5th Street · 1907–present
- Evans Plunge 1145 North River Street · 1890–present
- Hot Springs Historic District River Street Historic District · 1890–present
- Pioneer Museum 300 North Chicago Street · 1893–present
- The Mammoth Site 1800 US Highway 18 Bypass · 1974–present
- Wind Cave National Park 26611 US Highway 385 · 1881–present
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