The story of The West Baden Springs Hotel is much more than a simple tale of bricks and mortar. Each brick contains a memory and each room holds shadows of the thousands who graced this marvelous structure during a time when life was a little slower and certainly less complicated. The information contained within includes not only the history of this magnificent building but the stories of those people who made a dream become a reality and those who have experienced the dream. As you read through the various stories I invite you to suspend disbelief and let our mind escort you through an incredible journey of possibilities.... The possibility that one individual's dream could become a structure that was truly a work of art befitting of the country's exclamations that it was the Eighth Wonder of the World.