Hotel LaFontaine

200 W. State St., Huntington, Indiana. County/parish: Huntington.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 09, 1984. NRIS 84001056.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

Hotel LaFontaine

Hotel LaFontaine is a historic hotel building located at Huntington, Huntington County, Indiana. It was built in 1925, and consists of a six-story central pavilion with five-story flanking wings. It is of steel frame and hollow-tile construction and sheathed in brick. The building is in the Colonial Revival style. The lobby is designed to resemble a Spanish courtyard and the basement houses an Egyptian inspired swimming pool that opened in 1927. The hotel is named for Francis La Fontaine. It housed a hotel until 1974.: 2–3 

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is located in the Huntington Courthouse Square Historic District.

(read more...)

National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132003341

LC