Credit: Photograph courtesy Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York
One of the oldest resort hotels in the United States, Bedford Springs began attracting wealthy visitors to visit its seven mineral springs in the late 1700s. President James Buchanan was such a devotee of the hotel as an escape from the humidity of Washington that he turned it into his summer White House and received the first Trans-Atlantic cable in its lobby. The famed Bedford Cure, a physician-supervised three-week health regimen, was developed at the hotel in the 1920s.
