Hot Springs Hotel

In 1884 William Cadwell constructed, for the sum of $24,000 ($800,000 in 2026), the Hot Springs Hotel. It welcomed visitors with a lavish grand hall with black walnut staircase. The main floor hosted the parlor, barber shop, office, billiard room, dinning room, and kitchen. Bedrooms upstairs could accommodate 50 guests. An adjoining bathhouse, livery stable, and barn completed the facility. Soon, word spread of this "Pearl on the Platte," and "Wyoming's Great New Heath Resort."

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Sadly, the Hot Springs Hotel burnt to the ground in 1902, despite the locals forming a bucket brigade to attempt to save it. The fire started in a overheated stove in one of the bathhouses. The grand hotel was not rebuilt, with a much smaller bathhouse and guest cottages replacing it near the river bank.

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The Hotel sat roughly where the parking lot for the modern Saratoga Hot Springs Resort is now.