Broadwater Hotel and Natatorium

 

Broadwater Hotel and Natatorium Sources at Lewis & Clark Library Sources at the Montana Historical Society Research Center State Historic Preservation Office On-line resources

 

 

Colonel Charles Broadwater envisioned a grand hot springs resort west of Helena to rival all others the world over. The hotel and natatorium, the largest and most elegant hot springs "plunge" in the world, opened in 1889. But Helena's population was too small too sustain such a grand venture, and the hotel was never profitable. The natatorium was irreparably damaged in the 1935 earthquakes, and the hotel was demolished in 1976. There are pieces and parts of it, however, in many places around Helena. Some of the landscaping and a part of the billiard hall remain on the property along Highway 12, just west of the Williams Street Bridge.   

 

Sources at Lewis & Clark Library

 

1. Spencer, Patricia C. Helena, Montana: The Queen City of the Rockies and the Broadwater Hotel. Chicago: Arcadia, 2002. [Shelfmark M 978.6615 S]
2. Paladin, Vivian, and Jean Baucus. Helena: An Illustrated History. Helena, Montana: Montana Historical Society Press, 1996. 57, 58-59, 124, 132. [Shelfmark M 978.6615 P]
3. Campbell, William C. From the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch. Vol. 1, Helena, Montana: Montana Record Publishing, 1951. 216, 217, 223-4, 226, 235, 241, 242. [Shelfmark M 978.66 C Vol. 1]
4. Campbell, William C. From the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch. Vol. 2. Helena, Montana: Bell-Arm Corp., 1964. 50, 271, 272, 280, 281. [Shelfmark M 978.66 C Vol 2]
5. Lewis and Clark County. Twentieth Century Souvenir, Lewis and Clarke County, Being a Part of a Volume Soon to Be Issued Called 20th Century Souvenir of Montana, History and Exposition /. A.D.Raleigh, 1901. 21-22. [M 978.6615 R]
6. Bayne, Nedra. The Broadwater: Relic of Elegance. Montana the Magazine of Western History. Vol. 21, No. 3 Sum. 1969.
7. Independent Record. Famed Broadwater Theme for St. Peter's Charity Ball. Feb. 14, 1960 p. 11.
8. Daily Independent: Helena. A Fine Hotel. Aug. 27, 1889

 

Sources at the Montana Historical Society Research Center

 

1. Spencer, Patricia C. Helena, Montana: The Queen City of the Rockies and the Broadwater Hotel. Chicago: Arcadia, 2002. [Shelfmark 978.6615 SP33H]
2. Allen, Patricia C. The Broadwater Hotel and Natatorium: one man's unfulfilled dream. Helena, Mont.: Carroll College, 1995. [Shelfmark 978.6615 AL54B]
3. Daily Independent: Helena. A Fine Hotel. Aug. 27, 1889.
4. Bayne, Nedra. The Broadwater: Relic of Elegance. Montana the Magazine of Western History. Vol. 21, No. 3 Sum. 1969.
5. Independent Record. Famed Broadwater Theme for St. Peter's Charity Ball. Feb. 14, 1960 p. 11.

 

State Historic Preservation Office

 

1. Source 1
2. Source 2
3. Source 3

 

On-line resources

 

1. The Hotel Broadwater and Natatorium 
2. Source 2

 

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