The structure that burned last week was actually one building in a complex which was started in 1893. The original building, which includes the hotel lobby and what I imagine are the original guest rooms, still stands, and this signpost along the Historic Hot Springs Baseball Trail (only about a year old) still stands, too.
I shot this photo on my walk today.
It is hard to imagine today what the old baseball diamond at Whittington Park must have looked like. The park trail where I am accustomed to walking with the Gaul is an elongated track which seems ill-suited to the circular-shaped ballpark we are used to.
This photo is taken from about fifteen feet off the trail on the right. The trail across the way is about eight feet beyond the left side of that bridge.
Here is the opposite path, during warmer days. I always think as I walk this trail during summer of all the people who must have enjoyed the sunshine in Whittington Park, in centuries past.
