Built in 1889 in a mixture of the Queen Anne and Victorian architectural styles, the hotel building sits in the 100 block of West Spring Street.

[2] On the first story, the facade is divided into multiple storefronts,[3] but the rest of the hotel has been converted into housing for low-income individuals aged fifty-five or older.

Conversion to its present format was carried out by the Muskingum Development Corporation in the 1990s, at a cost of $2 million to $3 million; aid was provided by the Minster State Bank, which offered reduced interest rates to the redevelopers.

Adjacent to the hotel is a small spring; once tapped to provide water for Fort St. Marys, which once occupied the location of the city's downtown, the spring was later converted into a fountain that became the hotel's namesake.

[1] Key to this designation was its place in local history and commerce, as it once played the role of a hotel, specialty store, and restaurant.