In 1927, the Excelsior Springs City Council prepared a plan for taking over and operating 10 of the springs and wells located in the downtown. This led to the building of the Hall of Waters.
Construction of the Hall of Waters began in 1936 and finished in 1938. The Hall was built as a WPA project, which was for building the Hall, purchase of the mineral water rights, and piping the waters to bottling facilities within.
The interior and exterior decoration incorporates Art Deco and Depression Modern styling with motifs of Mayan Indian tradition relating to water and Water Gods.
The foyer features a mezzanine and skylight with electric lights providing lighting during evening hours.
You can find a number of souvenir items around the water bar area of the Visitor’s Center in the Hall of Waters
At its height, the Hall of Waters was the most completely outfitted health resort in the state and possible the region. Waters of ten main springs were piped into the longest mineral water bar in the world.
At the height of its popularity, over 10,000 people a day visited the Hall of Waters
Five varieties of mineral water were bottled here and shipped all over the world.
Excelsior Springs Water Development • 1937
The Hall was built as a WPA project, at one million dollars, it was the most ambitious project to have been taken undertaken by the WPA in Missouri.
Siloam Spring was the first of the mineral waters discovered in Excelsior Springs. It is the only natural supply of ferro-manganese water in the United States and one of only five known worldwide.
The original spring upon which the city was founded, Siloam Spring, currently lies under the front steps of the Hall of Waters. There remains today a 12 foot cavern under the lawn shown here with the original spring.
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