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  2. Rivington Street municipal bath - Wikipedia

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    The public bath at 324–28 Rivington Street (lower left) on a map published in 1903. The Rivington Street municipal bath was the first bathhouse built with public funds in New York City. [1] It was constructed in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, which was a densely populated and poor area. [2] in 1900. Costing $100,000, a large sum for the ...

  3. American Foursquare - Wikipedia

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    The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie architecture pioneered by Frank Lloyd Wright.. During the early 1900s and 1910s, Wright even designed his own variations on the Foursquare, including the Robert M. Lamp House, "A Fireproof House for $5000", and several two-story models for American System-Built Homes.

  4. Public bathing - Wikipedia

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    According to John Keay, the "Great Bath" of Mohenjo Daro in present-day Pakistan was the size of 'a modest municipal swimming pool', complete with stairs leading down to the water at each one of its ends. [1] The bath is housed inside a larger—more elaborate—building and was used for public bathing. [1]

  5. Outhouse - Wikipedia

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    An outhouse often provides the shelter for a pit latrine, which collects human feces in a hole in the ground. When properly built and maintained they can decrease the spread of disease by reducing the amount of human feces in the environment from open defecation. [6]

  6. Nude swimming in US indoor pools - Wikipedia

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    Floating bath at the Battery, New York City, 1908. Beginning in 1870, the first public pools in New York City were outdoor "floating baths" of wood surrounded by docks that allowed river water to flow through them. In addition to health and hygiene, they were intended to prevent drowning in the open river, which was a frequent occurrence.

  7. Category:1900s architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1900s architecture in the United States" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  8. Baths and wash houses in Britain - Wikipedia

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    In 1844, the Committee for Promoting the Establishment of Baths and Wash-Houses for the Labouring Classes was formed with the Bishop of London as president. [8] The Bishop petitioned for a bill for the regulation of public baths and in 1846 Sir George Gray introduced the bill which became the Public Baths and Wash-houses Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 74).

  9. Victorian Turkish baths - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian Turkish bath is a type of hot-air bath that originated in Ireland in 1856. It was explicitly identified as such in the 1990s and then named and defined [3] to necessarily distinguish it from the baths which had for centuries, especially in Europe, been loosely, and often incorrectly, called "Turkish" baths.

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