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• French Lick Golf Resort And Casino Buffet
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• French Lick Golf Resort And Casinos
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French Lick Golf Resort And Casino Buffet

French Lick Resort Golf, French Lick, IN. A Golf Enthusiast's Paradise. French Lick Casino and our golf courses are open to the public. Dining venues in hotels are open to resort guests only. By state mandate, masks are required at all indoor resort venues. Your health and safety is our #1 priority, and you can click here to learn more about our enhanced safety protocols and other resort amenities. Voted Best Hotel in Indiana by Travel & Leisure Magazine, French Lick Resort is family-friendly, business-competent and perfect for a planned or impromptu getaway. Come experience Old World opulence amid modern comforts served with Midwestern charm — close to home. We’re an easy drive from Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. We had been in the Casino only 20 minutes and left vowing never to return to it or to French Lick that has nothing to offer but golf, a water park, food venues, bars, and liquor stores. The Casino's continuous response to negative online comments is always, 'We apologize for not meeting your expectations. Before it became famous for golf French Lick was famous for its’ sulfur hot springs and a casino visited by celebrities like boxer Joe Lewis, composer Ervin Berlin, and gangster Al Capone. It’s also well known as the hometown of basketball legend Larry Bird. The West Baden Hotel has the grandeur of a European classic.

French Lick Resort is a resort complex in the Midwestern United States, located in the towns of West Baden Springs and French Lick, Indiana. The 3,000-acre (12 km²) complex includes two historic resort spa hotels, stables, a casino, and three golf courses that are all part of a $500 million restoration and development project.^[1][2]

Casino[edit]

The casino opened for business on November 3, 2006, after a gaming license originally intended for Patoka Lake was transferred to French Lick. Honoring state law allowing only water-based gaming, it was originally designed as a riverboat and surrounded by a small pond (commonly nicknamed the Boat in the Moat).^[3] In 2008, the moat was filled in and the casino boat was converted into the state's first land-based casino.

The casino features more than 1,300 slot machines, and table games including blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker derivatives.

French Lick Springs Hotel[edit]

The site was originally known as the French Lick Springs Hotel, a grand resort that was a mineral spring health spa. The hotel catered to guests seeking the advertised healing properties of the town's sulfursprings, three of which were on the hotel's property. William A. Bowles built and opened the first hotel on his property around 1845. Subsequent owners enlarged the original hotel, but it burned in 1897. Rebuilt and expanded on an even grander scale, especially under the ownership of Thomas Taggart, a former mayor of Indianapolis and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the popular resort attracted many fashionable, wealthy, and notable guests.^[4][5][6] In the 1920s and into the 1930s the resort became known for its recreational sports, most notably golf, but the French Lick area also had a reputation for illegal gambling. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The restored hotel, with its exteriors of distinctive, buff-colored brick, reopened in 2006.^[7][8][9]

West Baden Springs Hotel[edit]

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The historic, 243-room luxury West Baden Springs Hotel, in the adjacent town of West Baden Springs, 1 mile (1.6 km) from the French Lick Springs Hotel, is also part of the casino resort complex. The present-day West Baden hotel was built in 1902 (118 years ago) to replace an earlier hotel. The new hotel became known for the 200-foot (61 m) dome covering its atrium.^[10][11] It held the title of the largest free-spanning dome in the world from 1902 to 1913, and remained the largest dome in the United States until the completerion of the Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1955.^{[citation needed]} The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and became a National Historic Landmark in 1987.^[12] It is also designated as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.^[13] In 2008 readers of Condé Nast Traveler ranked the West Baden Springs Hotel twenty-first on its list of the top resorts on the United States mainland.^[14]

Golf[edit]

The casino complex includes three golf courses: the Valley Course, the Hill Course, and the Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick.

Beginning in the early twentieth century, when golf was gaining popularity, the French Lick hotel began to expand its modest golf facilities. Valley Course, the resort's first golf course, is adjacent to the hotel and casino. It was enlarged to an 18-hole course on 120 acres (49 hectares) around 1907. The larger course design, attributed to Tom Bendelow, featured a combination of wooded hills and flat turf.^[15] It has been altered and reduced to a 9-hole course as a result of the casino construction.^{[citation needed]}

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Donald Ross and his associates designed the 18-hole Hill Course, the resort's second golf course, around 1917. Completed in 1920 on approximately 300 acres (120 hectares), the championship course was located about 2 miles (3.2 km) from the French Lick hotel. The course hosted the PGA Championship tournament in 1924, which Walter Hagen won.^[16][17] It also hosted the LPGA Championship tournament in 1959 and 1960, and the Midwest Amateur from the 1930s through the 1950s. In 2006–07, the course was restored to its original specifications in cooperation with the Donald Ross Society.^{[citation needed]}

Pete Dye, a renowned golf course designer from Indiana, designed the resort's third course. The 18-hole Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick opened in June 2009, and hosted the PGA Professional National Championship in June 2010.^[18] Mount Airie, Thomas Taggart's 1928 Colonial-style home, was purchased and transformed into a clubhouse and pro shop that overlooks much of the course. This site hosted the Senior PGA Championship in 2015.^{[citation needed]}

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Notes[edit]

1. ^'French Lick Resort'. Inside Indiana Business. 2008-11-03. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009.
2. ^Marsh, Betsa (2010-09-04). 'Revived Indiana Resorts Mirror Their Gilded Pasts'. Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
3. ^'Two Landmark Hotels Saved, Two Others Need Saving'. Hotel Interactive. Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
4. ^Steelwater, Eliza (2002-08-15). 'National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: French Lick Springs Hotel'(pdf). United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service. pp. 12–15, 18–20, 53–56. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
5. ^'French Lick Springs Hotel: Overview'. Historic Hotels of America; National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
6. ^Fadely, James P. (1997). Thomas Taggart: Public Servant, Political Boss: 1856-1929. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. pp. xii, 57, 61, 65–68. ISBN9780871951151.
7. ^Fadely, pp. 74–76.
8. ^'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
9. ^'Hotel History'. French Lick Resort. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
10. ^O'Malley, John W. (December 1958). 'The Story of the West Baden Springs Hotel'. Indiana Magazine of History. Bloomington: Indiana University. 54 (4): 370–72. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
11. ^Rhodes, A. J. (1904). The Pedigree of West Baden(PDF). French Lick and West Baden, History and Story, From 1810 to 1904. pp. 8–9.
12. ^Charleton, James H. (June 1985). 'National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: West Baden Springs Hotel'. National Park Service.
13. ^'West Baden Springs Hotel'. American Society of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
14. ^'West Baden Outranks High Profile Resorts'. Inside Indiana Business. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
15. ^Steelwater, p. 58.
16. ^Steelwater, pp. 33–36; 59–60.
17. ^Fadely, p. 72.
18. ^'The Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick'. IndianaGolf.com. Retrieved 2016-05-31.

References[edit]

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• Fadely, James P. (1997). Thomas Taggart: Public Servant, Political Boss: 1856-1929. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society. ISBN9780871951151.
• 'French Lick Resort'. Inside Indiana Business. 2008-11-03. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009.
• 'French Lick Springs Hotel: Overview'. Historic Hotels of America; National Trust for Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
• 'Hotel History'. French Lick Resort. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
• Marsh, Betsa (2010-09-04). 'Revived Indiana Resorts Mirror Their Gilded Pasts'. Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
• O'Malley, John W. (December 1958). 'The Story of the West Baden Springs Hotel'. Indiana Magazine of History. Bloomington: Indiana University. 54 (4): 365–380. Retrieved 2016-05-23.
• Office of Code Revision Indiana Legislative Services Agency. 'Riverboat Gambling,' IC 35-45-5-10.
• 'The Pete Dye Golf Course at French Lick'. IndianaGolf.com. Retrieved 2016-05-31.
• Rhodes, A. J. (1904). The Pedigree of West Baden(PDF). French Lick and West Baden, History and Story, From 1810 to 1904.
• 'National Register Information System'. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
• Charleton, James H. (June 1985). 'National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: West Baden Springs Hotel'. National Park Service.
• Steelwater, Eliza (2002-08-15). 'National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form: French Lick Springs Hotel'(pdf). United States Department of the Interior/National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
• Turkel, Stanley (2007-06-01). 'Two Landmark Hotels Saved, Two Others Need Saving'. HotelInteractive.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-18. Retrieved 2007-09-01.
• 'West Baden Outranks High Profile Resorts'. Inside Indiana Business. Archived from the original on September 23, 2009. Retrieved 2008-11-07.
• 'West Baden Springs Hotel'. American Society of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 2016-05-23.

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