Keywords: Bathhouse colonnade of the now-derelict (in 2015) Sweet Springs health resort, once famous for its supposedly curative warm waters, which opened in 1833 in Monroe County, Virginia (later West LCCN2015634325.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Design of the campus of grand buildings is regularly credited to Thomas Jefferson the United States' retired third president But others say his assistant in the design of the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville Virginia William B Phillips did the sketches Unlike the relatively nearby Greenbrier Resort which had the good fortune of being located on a railroad line Sweet Springs relied on less convenient and less comfortable stagecoaches to deliver its clientele Its popularity faded and the property morphed into a tuberculosis sanitorium and later a nursing home before slipping into abandonment around the turn of the 21st century Several renovation plans were floated but it lay deteriorating during this photo visit Its caretaker remarked that the once-grand resort was up for auction and that preservation of the structures could not be assured ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634325 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34300/34309a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34309 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34309 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Photographs by Carol M Highsmith |