French Lick Resort Casino
| French Lick Resort | |
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French Lick Springs Hotel in 2011
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| Address | 8670 W. State 56 French Lick, Indiana |
| Opening date | 2006 |
| Theme | Las Vegas |
| No. of rooms | 443 main hotel 246 resort hotel |
| Total gaming space | 38,000 sq ft (3,500 m2) |
| Signature attractions | Two golf courses; designed by Donald Ross (1917) & Pete Dye (2009) |
| Notable restaurants |
1875: Steakhouse Sinclair's Fine Dining |
| Casino type | Land-Based |
| Owner | Orange County Holdings |
| Website | frenchlick.com |
Coordinates: 38°33′11″N 86°37′12″W / 38.553°N 86.620°W
French Lick Resort is a resort complex in the central United States, located in the towns of West Baden and French Lick, Indiana. The 3,000-acre (12 km2) complex includes two historic resort spa hotels, stables, a casino, and three golf courses that are all part of a $500 million restoration and development project.
The casino opened for business eleven years ago on November 3, 2006, after a gaming license originally intended for Patoka Lake was transferred to French Lick. Honoring state law allowing only water-based gaming, it was originally designed as a riverboat and surrounded by a small pond (commonly nicknamed the Boat in the Moat). In 2008, the moat was filled in and the casino boat was converted into the state's first land-based casino.
The casino features more than 1,300 slot machines, and table games including blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker derivatives.
The site was originally known as the French Lick Springs Hotel, a grand resort that was a mineral spring health spa. The hotel catered to guests seeking the advertised healing properties of the town's sulfur springs, three of which were on the hotel's property. William A. Bowles built and opened the first hotel on his property around 1845. Subsequent owners enlarged the original hotel, but it burned in 1897. Rebuilt and expanded on an even grander scale, especially under the ownership of Thomas Taggart, a former mayor of Indianapolis and chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the popular resort attracted many fashionable, wealthy, and notable guests. In the 1920s and into the 1930s the resort became known for its recreational sports, most notably golf, but the French Lick area also had a reputation for illegal gambling. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The restored hotel, with its exteriors of distinctive, buff-colored brick, reopened in 2006.
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