On the banks of Sulphur Creek south of Lampasas, sulphur-saturated water from Hancock Springs feeds a 300,000-gallon free-flow pool, built in 1911, at 70 gallons per second at an even 72 degrees Fahrenheit. The first pool was built for a Baptist camp that once occupied the land. In 1882, the Lampasas Springs Company (composed of directors of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway) acquired the land and in 1883 built the 200-room Park Hotel (Eugene T. Heiner), which burned in 1894. The site is now a city park on the north side of Sulphur Creek and a bathhouse on the south bank. The current footbridge across the creek is a replica of the hotel bridge to the pool. On the south bank of Sulphur Creek, just north of the pool, are stone ruins of the c. 1882 bathhouse, destroyed by the many floods of Sulphur Creek. The ruins were stabilized in 2003. The pool and the land were sold in 1929, and a two-story frame building (now known as Hostess House) was built with materials from the Baptist camp’s dining room; its limestone veneer was added in 1947. The building includes a reception hall and changing rooms on the first floor and an open-air dance hall on the second. The city purchased the park and its structures in 1936 to provide water to the city, adding a golf course and baseball fields in 1948. In 1994, the city leased the Hostess House to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who manage it.