The first time Lee and David Manuel laid eyes on Hot Lake Springs, they thought the three-story brick building could star in a horror movie: it had no roof, no floors and no windows. Empty for most of the last 70 years, the building was obscured by a forest of overgrown trees and shrubs, a majority of them long dead. It was a Sunday after church, and their 22-year-old son, Larry, had brought the family to La Grande, Oregon, to see an abandoned resort he thought the family should restore. “W
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