Gibson Cottage was the last surviving early nineteenth-century cottage at the Warm Springs Pools, a modest but deeply significant remnant of Bath County’s early resort era. Dating to the 1820s and associated with the formative decades of the springs’ development, the cottage stood at the western end of historic cottage row as a rare, intact link to the period when visitors came seeking the restorative waters that shaped the region’s identity. It endured long after the larger Warm Springs Hotel complex was demolished in the 1920s, quietly preserving the scale and character of the early springs landscape. Its recent destruction by fire and subsequent razing mark a profound loss — the disappearance of the last authentic domestic structure from the Pool’s earliest chapter and a tangible piece of the architectural fabric that once defined Bath County’s cultural and social life.