Bedford Springs Hotel
The
Bedford Springs Hotel was a large
hotel and mineral-water resort located in the Allegheny Mountains just outside
Bedford, Pennsylvania. Vacant and not operational for over a decade in 2003, it was a favored resort during the 19th century, and was frequented by President
James Buchanan, who used it as a summer
White House. The first
transatlantic cable sent from
England to the
United States was received at the hotel during the late
1850s. The hotel's
golf course, designed in the
1920s, is still in business. During
World War II, the hotel and grounds were used as a
U.S. Navy radio training center, and also as a detention center for interned
Japanese diplomats.
Efforts to find a way to restore the hotel and grounds are ongoing.