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Discreet Palate
Text by Heather Bode | Photography by Jacqui Smith
ABOVE: The Wassweiler Inn & Bathhouse represent the
only original hot springs structures in Helena. LEFT: A feast
for the eyes: The cowboy cut ribeye perches on scalloped
potatoes and is topped with a microgreen salad.
y
ou've probably never heard of
Ferdinand Wassweiler, a German
immigrant who followed the
rush of gold miners to the Hel-
ena area. While he was shrewd
enough to claim land west of town that bubbled
with natural hot springs, Wassweiler, plagued
with money troubles and the lure of "get rich
quick" schemes, departed into history as nothing
more than a finagling shyster.
HISTORY
Wassweiler knew the hot springs would
be profitable in a mining camp where gold dust
was local currency. His original hot springs stood
not far from the current Broadwater Hot Springs
THE TRIFECTA OF
DINING EXPERIENCES
Wassweiler
Dinner House & Pub
