Looking at the building that processes one-third of the drinking water for Springfield, you wouldn't think it was necessarily a water treatment plant, although it is reminiscent of the bath houses in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The red brick structure was built in 1940 and sits next to the Fulbright Spring, which spans back to at least 1883, according to City Utilities Water Treatment & Supply manager Alan Jones.
The Fulbright Water Treatment Plant, at 3920 N. Farm Rd. 147, sends 9 million gallons from the spring and 3 million gallons from about a 1,400-foot deep well, dug in 1915, to the Springfield area, Jones said.