Another West Baden post!
I thought I would leave these as thumbnails that you can click on to see the larger views or to use the gallery.
These are more pictures of the fireplace in the atrium, the hotel lobby, and Sinclair's (restaurants).
Here is the MULTI-MILLION dollar fireplace that was directly below our room on the atrium floor. Mrs. Sinclair had the front hand made from glazed ceramic pieces.
The little man with the pointed hat on the top right is Sprudel who was the "logo" for the springs. Under the tree branches is a depiction of the hotel itself.
This is a detail view of the part of the multi-million dollar fireplace in the atrium.
That's a little reproduction of the hotel under the tree.
The little guy holding a drinking horn is Sprudel. He was/is a symbol for the hotel.
Ms. Sinclair was the owner that had this ceramic fireplace front created. The Jesuits painted over it... but it was cleaned off during the restoration.
Robert was just curious about where the smoke went out.
It turned out that it vents to the side and went right up past our room. Fourteen foot logs will fit in the fireplace.
This is the ceiling of the lobby of the hotel. People first entered there to check in.
Since people were expecting a big dome they were a bit questioning about it being a smaller one than they expected. THEN they were lead out into the atrium for a BIG surprise.
I took this shot from the mezzanine looking down into the lobby. Look at the wonderful designs and ALL THAT TILE.
The tile floor is made out of little one inch tiles. It's beautiful. The designs are repeated over and over throughout the hotel in different forms... like that wonderful carpet and on the sides of the atrium.
Here is a closer view of the carpet. It *reflects* the design of the ceiling.
The glass doors have stained glass that was added by the Jesuits. I guess the Pope thought that they could have the glass. The designs are too hard to see... but it's praying angels. I liked the glass *Horn of Plenty* on the beautiful table.
This is still the lobby. Some furniture company in Indiana made all of the reproduction furniture for the hotel since the originals were all gone.
That furniture company does GREAT work. You can really see the tile work in this picture too.
We tried to get a picture of the door designs but it was too light outside for the designs to show well.
You can ALMOST see the stained glass angel designs in this picture. Only three of the windows are the originals because someone stole them all.
Luckily three of them turned up in an antiques shop in Kentucky. The others are all reproductions of the ones that were never found. I think that there are seven in all.
Here is that tile floor in the lobby. It all had to be restored.
A night picture taken by Robert of the lobby. He thought that it was really pretty at night. So do I.
Another night shot by Robert of the lobby.
This is where we had our nicest meal of our stay. It's their *fancy* restaurant called Sinclair's named after the third hotel owners.
The food was wonderful. Above the dining rooms is the ballroom, but we did not know about it and did not see it.
This is the waiting area between the two sections of Sinclair's. The glass panels on the room dividing walls are etched glass historical photos of the hotel.
See how the art themes just keep repeating?
The other half of the room is Sinclair's Cafe. You can eat breakfast and lunch there. The food was GREAT and everyone was very nice to us.
This section is not open for dinner. The other section is not open at breakfast and lunch. Robert kept going in to get me orange juice in the morning because I don't drink straight coffee. The hostess called him "Orange Juice Man" every time she saw him. :-) They didn't charge him for the juice for me. He brought it up to the room.
And no... I am still not done. :-)
These are more pictures of the fireplace in the atrium, the hotel lobby, and Sinclair's (restaurants).
Here is the MULTI-MILLION dollar fireplace that was directly below our room on the atrium floor. Mrs. Sinclair had the front hand made from glazed ceramic pieces.
The little man with the pointed hat on the top right is Sprudel who was the "logo" for the springs. Under the tree branches is a depiction of the hotel itself.
This is a detail view of the part of the multi-million dollar fireplace in the atrium.
That's a little reproduction of the hotel under the tree.
The little guy holding a drinking horn is Sprudel. He was/is a symbol for the hotel.
Ms. Sinclair was the owner that had this ceramic fireplace front created. The Jesuits painted over it... but it was cleaned off during the restoration.
Robert was just curious about where the smoke went out.
It turned out that it vents to the side and went right up past our room. Fourteen foot logs will fit in the fireplace.
This is the ceiling of the lobby of the hotel. People first entered there to check in.
Since people were expecting a big dome they were a bit questioning about it being a smaller one than they expected. THEN they were lead out into the atrium for a BIG surprise.
I took this shot from the mezzanine looking down into the lobby. Look at the wonderful designs and ALL THAT TILE.
The tile floor is made out of little one inch tiles. It's beautiful. The designs are repeated over and over throughout the hotel in different forms... like that wonderful carpet and on the sides of the atrium.
Here is a closer view of the carpet. It *reflects* the design of the ceiling.
The glass doors have stained glass that was added by the Jesuits. I guess the Pope thought that they could have the glass. The designs are too hard to see... but it's praying angels. I liked the glass *Horn of Plenty* on the beautiful table.
This is still the lobby. Some furniture company in Indiana made all of the reproduction furniture for the hotel since the originals were all gone.
That furniture company does GREAT work. You can really see the tile work in this picture too.
We tried to get a picture of the door designs but it was too light outside for the designs to show well.
You can ALMOST see the stained glass angel designs in this picture. Only three of the windows are the originals because someone stole them all.
Luckily three of them turned up in an antiques shop in Kentucky. The others are all reproductions of the ones that were never found. I think that there are seven in all.
Here is that tile floor in the lobby. It all had to be restored.
A night picture taken by Robert of the lobby. He thought that it was really pretty at night. So do I.
Another night shot by Robert of the lobby.
This is where we had our nicest meal of our stay. It's their *fancy* restaurant called Sinclair's named after the third hotel owners.
The food was wonderful. Above the dining rooms is the ballroom, but we did not know about it and did not see it.
This is the waiting area between the two sections of Sinclair's. The glass panels on the room dividing walls are etched glass historical photos of the hotel.
See how the art themes just keep repeating?
The other half of the room is Sinclair's Cafe. You can eat breakfast and lunch there. The food was GREAT and everyone was very nice to us.
This section is not open for dinner. The other section is not open at breakfast and lunch. Robert kept going in to get me orange juice in the morning because I don't drink straight coffee. The hostess called him "Orange Juice Man" every time she saw him. :-) They didn't charge him for the juice for me. He brought it up to the room.
And no... I am still not done. :-)