{"nrhp_refnum":"85001560","name":"Chalybeate Springs Hotel","other_names":["The Chalybeate"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Chalybeate Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Bedford Borough","county":"Bedford County","state":"PA","lat":40.02527022000007,"lon":-78.4753484149461,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-07-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former watering place and health resort complex with a hotel, a mid-19th century brick residence, and the adjacent Chalybeate Spring, located about one mile northeast of Bedford Borough on Chalybeate Road in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The hotel complex is now vacant and was most recently used as 13 apartments.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is a surviving representative example of late 19th and early 20th century commercial spa and resort development. It states that the hotel buildings and the adjacent iron-bearing spring remain essentially intact, and that visitors included prominent Americans, including at least three Presidents of the United States.","narrative":"Along Chalybeate Road northeast of Bedford Borough stands a hotel complex built around a mineral spring whose water is impregnated with iron compounds. The core is a two-storey, three-bay brick residence of about 1851 in the Pennsylvania Federal style, to which a brick front wing of about 1867 and a rear L-shaped wing of about 1885 were joined, all on fieldstone foundations and connected by continuous porches. The spring sits immediately behind the hotel. The site was commercially developed as a health resort around 1867, shortly after three railroad lines reached Bedford County, and attracted visitors seeking mineral water cures. Its earlier history includes ownership by merchant George Funk, who bought the tract in 1786. The hotel buildings and spring are regarded as essentially intact examples of late nineteenth-century spa development. The complex is now vacant, and a detached barn on the site is badly deteriorated.","period_of_significance":"1867-1913","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Pennsylvania Federal style (residence)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant; most recently used as 13 apartments","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.780965-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/85001560.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001560/1f4317bb38-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85001560/1f4317bb38-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CHALYBEATE_SPRINGS_HOTEL,_BEDFORD_TOWNSHIP,_BEDFORD_COUNTY,_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</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:CHALYBEATE_SPRINGS_HOTEL,_BEDFORD_TOWNSHIP,_BEDFORD_COUNTY,_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994592","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalybeate_Springs_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5069096"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bedford-county/chalybeate-springs-hotel-85001560/"}