{"nrhp_refnum":"73000612","name":"Indian Springs Hotel","other_names":["Varner House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"GA 42","address_restricted":false,"city":"Indian Springs","county":"Butts County","state":"GA","lat":33.24539346100005,"lon":-83.91991418599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-05-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Aboriginal","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame inn with later rear and side additions, built about 1823 across from Indian Springs State Park on Highway 42 in Indian Springs, Butts County, Georgia. It was long known as McIntosh Inn and the Varner House.","why_significant":"It is described as one of very few surviving structures representing 19th century Creek Indian life in Georgia. It was the tavern-inn of Creek chief William McIntosh, where the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs was signed, and it later became a well-known resort hotel. Its interior details show 'wilderness' sophistication in the Federal manner.","narrative":"Built about 1823 on a wooded hill across from Indian Springs State Park, this elongated frame building served first as the tavern and inn of William McIntosh, a Creek chief of the Coweta group. In 1825 McIntosh and other chiefs signed the Treaty of Indian Springs here, ceding Creek lands. McIntosh was later executed by the Upper Creeks for signing without the full consent of the nation. In 1850 the Varner family acquired the property, and as the 35-room Varner House it became a noted resort hotel in a town famed as a health resort. The building has seven bays, a shed porch, three pilaster-framed entrances, twelve-over-twelve sash windows, and a fieldstone basement room said to have held prisoners. Inside, Adam-style mantels and beaded wainscoting reflect Federal-period knowledge. It is described as one of very few surviving structures of 19th century Creek life in Georgia.","period_of_significance":"19th Century (specific date c. 1823)","architect_builder":"William McIntosh and Joel Bailey (traditionally said to have built it)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition rated fair and altered; the form says it has been increasingly neglected over the years, was open to the public for a fee, and was proposed for state acquisition in 1973.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:41.341547-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/73000612.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000612/094dd215ca-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73000612/094dd215ca-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Blastoids","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Indian_Springs_Hotel.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Blastoids</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Indian_Springs_Hotel.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207189","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Springs_Hotel_Museum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16892647"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/butts-county/indian-springs-hotel-73000612/"}