Brooklyn · NYC landmark
Public Bath No. 7
227-231 4th Avenue · Brooklyn, New York City
A former free bathhouse records the public-health effort to serve homes without bathing facilities.
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NYFE Summary
The city built free bathhouses for crowded neighborhoods where many homes lacked a bath. This one served the tenement district beside the Gowanus industrial area. It was Brooklyn’s first public bath to include a swimming pool.
Three large arched windows fill the upper front above separate entrances marked for men and women. Pale brick, stone and colored ceramic details give a public washing building an unusually formal appearance. The old Public Bath inscription remains near the roofline.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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