Hot Lake Springs, Oregon

I had the delightful opportunity of spending a day at Hot Lake Springs in Oregon. It is an historic site with a trading post dating back to 1812. Built on the shore of a hot spring which reaches temperatures in excess of 200 degrees, the present day building was built in the early 1900's and partially destroyed later. It was allowed to deteriorate for many years before the Manuels decided to tackle it's restoration and rejuvenation. This post and the several that follow contain some of the photos from my few hours there...


There's the old Trading Post:
And the Spring House, where you can pump water from the hot spring and settle into the spa for a warm sulfur bath.

And then there's the chapel, still under construction and situated under God's own cathedral:


Or the old farm equipment still lying around the place:
And then there's that old barn that just leaned a bit too far to one side...

And now for the renovation project of a life time!!! How do you restore a three story building that was so deteriorated when you first saw it that, while standing on the first floor in a rainstorm, you would get soaking wet? That's what they faced when they decided to save this historic building.

In the original building the upper floor was the hospital. These are some of the remaining facilities...

The Doctor's office:

A patient's room...
Some of the original X-Ray equipment, which still needs to be restored.An old gurney in front of a pictoral recreation of the old surgery. And some of the other restored areas: