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The first hotel on this site was built in 1855. Later, Lee W. Sinclair made many improvements and changed the name to West Baden Springs Hotel, which burned down in 1901. The next year he opened a new circular hotel, with a 200-foot atrium. The hotel closed in 1932, and two years later the Jesuits bought it for one dollar, removed many of its elegant embellishments, and renamed it West Baden College, which operated until 1964. In 1966 they gave the building to the Northwood Institute, a private college that used the building until 1983. The property deteriorated until bought and restored by the Cook Group in 2006.