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The Spa (Manitou Springs, Colorado)

USA / Colorado / Manitou Springs / Manitou Springs, Colorado / Manitou Avenue, 934
 mixed-used building, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, Mission Revival (architecture)
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The Manitou Springs Spa Building, a historic former bath house. This local landmark in the Spanish Revival style now contains condos and retail space.

A font for the Soda Spring, a mineral soda water spring, is the centerpiece of the building's "rotunda" (front foyer) in the south corner. (See the attached place "Soda Spring" for more information and historic photos.)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the areas of architecture and health/medicine.

Featured in the Manitou Springs Historic Plaque Walking Tour: www.manitouspringsgov.com/library/documents/general/map...

History:

The Spa was built in 1920 at a cost of $350,000 by Colorado Governor Oliver Shoup's Manitou Springs Bath House Company. It replaced the earlier "second" Manitou Bath House, which was located at what is now the Cañon Parking Lot: wikimapia.org/25523478

Like the two earlier bath houses, it offered heated baths using mineral water from the Navajo Spring.

The site of the Spa was previously occupied by an elaborate open-air pavilion that covered the Soda Spring.

The Spa was originally known as "The Manitou Baths", or (like the two earlier bath houses) simply as "The Bath House". It was re-named the "Spa" circa 1940.

It was later the "Westernaire" nursing home.

In 2005 the interior of the Spa was almost completely rebuilt, at a cost of $7,000,000, after damage from the Williams Canyon Flood of 1997 caused the building to be condemned and nearly torn down.
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Coordinates:   38°51'33"N   104°55'5"W
This article was last modified 7 years ago