IN SCR0059

Indiana General Assembly commends French Lick Springs Hotel for 175 years of world class hospitality, marking its founding around 1845 by the Bowles Brothers

Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 and has hosted notable guests including Franklin D. Roosevelt during his 1931 presidential campaign

Property features historic Donald Ross-designed golf course from 1917, which hosted the 1924 PGA Championship won by Walter Hagen

Hotel is credited with originating tomato juice as a beverage in 1917 and was home to "Pluto Water," a mineral tonic that won a Blue Ribbon at the Paris World's Fair

Secretary of the Senate directed to transmit a copy of the resolution to French Lick Springs Hotel