Now the Homestead, Hot Springs has long vied with the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs as the most magnificent of the spas. And, like the Greenbrier, it has kept up with the times and incorporated more than simply the taking of the waters. Golf and seaweed body wraps are among the many amenities awaiting the twenty-first century guest. Convenient rail transportation was also important to survival; Covington, Virginia is about 20 miles south.

Looking more like a very large well-kept farm in this view, Hot Springs does not display the symmetrical arrangement of buildings as do many of the other resort prints. With the exception of three smaller bath houses, the resort buildings depicted by Beyer were demolished and replaced between 1891 and 1896. Those new wooden buildings burned on July 2, 1901, and were replaced by the current Georgian-style red brick structures. Prominent in the foreground, the ubiquitous stagecoach carries travelers to a relaxing retreat.