page_title: Mountain Springs Hotel
section_title: Modern Hotel
hierarchical_section_title: Mountain Springs Hotel / Modern Hotel
caption_attribution_description: The travesty of commerce trumps history. This is all that remains of the Mountain Springs Hotel in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. The remainder of the hotel was destroyed in the early 2000s to make way for a Hampton Inn and an Applebees. Camera location40°&#160;10′&#160;28.6″&#160;N, 76°&#160;10′&#160;21.2″&#160;W&#160;&#160;&#160;View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth
context_page_description: The Mountain Springs Hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is located in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, at the corner of East Main Street and Spring Garden Street. It was originally built in 1848 as a summer resort, capitalizing on its natural spring water, and hosted a variety of high-profile guests including several Presidents. The resort lost its popularity in the early 20th century and fell into disrepair, but was eventually purchased and converted into the first hospital in the Ephrata area—serving from 1937 through 1949. It remained under private ownership and became dilapidated over the following decades, culminating in its complete closure in 1988 and the auctioning of its contents in 1991. The following decade was met with a variety of redevelopment proposals, and in the years around the turn of the 21st century it was decided that the property would be redeveloped with another hotel. The majority of the Mountain Springs Hotel was demolished in 2004, retaining a portion of the Konigmacher mansion. Today, a Hampton Inn hotel and Applebee's restaurant occupy the site alongside the restored building from the original Mountain Springs Hotel.
context_section_description: In December 1999, the Ephrata Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) received a grant from the Ephrata Borough facilitating the purchase of the Mountain Springs Hotel property.  Local planning efforts within the community—including the Downtown Visioning Process of 2002—consistently identified the need to reestablish a hotel on the 8-acre (32,000 m²) site, intended to serve as a focal point for the revitalization of the downtown area.  Over the following years, the EEDC entered the property into the Keystone Opportunity Program run by the State, securing a $2.6 million Commonwealth Redevelopment Capital Assistance Program grant to create a hotel on the site.
  The majority of the Mountain Springs property was demolished in 2004, leaving only a portion of the Konigmacher mansion.  Much of the property was cleared and regraded to make way for a new Hampton Inn hotel and an Applebee's restaurant.  The remaining building was restored.  The new hotel opened in 2005.
caption: The modern hotel
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