{"nrhp_refnum":"85002275","name":"Public Bath No. 7","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"227--231 Fourth Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.676764941000044,"lon":-73.98294837299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-09-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Public Bath No. 7 is a municipal bathhouse at 227-231 Fourth Avenue, at the corner of President Street in Brooklyn, built 1906-1910 and designed by architect Raymond F. Almirall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a distinguished Neo-Renaissance bathhouse, designed on the model of a Renaissance palazzo, with distinctive colored terra-cotta ornament. It is also tied to the turn-of-the-century public health movement that provided free bathing for working-class tenement residents. It was the first Brooklyn bath with a plunge pool and is the only surviving bathhouse in the borough.","narrative":"Public Bath No. 7 is a Brooklyn bathhouse at Fourth Avenue and President Street, built between 1906 and 1910 for a densely populated tenement neighborhood beside the Gowanus Canal. Architect Raymond F. Almirall modeled it on a Renaissance palazzo, using white glazed brick and limestone-colored terra cotta. Blue and green terra-cotta details, including urns and images of Triton, add a playful water theme, and a tall arcade of round-headed windows marks the principal story. It was among the largest and most ornate of Brooklyn's municipal baths and the first in the borough with a plunge pool. It is now the only surviving bathhouse in Brooklyn. The building reflects a campaign to give working-class and poor residents free year-round bathing as a public health measure, and its classical styling reflects the City Beautiful ideal of dignified public architecture. The interior became a gymnasium in 1937, and the building is now vacant, with its main windows sealed by tin sheets.","period_of_significance":"1906-10","architect_builder":"Raymond F. Almirall","architectural_style":"Neo-Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"The form lists the building as unoccupied and vacant. The interior was converted to a gymnasium in 1937, with the pool filled in and the balcony, waiting rooms and shower rooms mostly removed. Tin sheets seal the main windows.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.74156-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85002275.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002275/424b6ecec2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002275/424b6ecec2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"RayScript","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Public_Bath_No_7_in_Brooklyn,_April_2020.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">RayScript</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Public_Bath_No_7_in_Brooklyn,_April_2020.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318489","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Bath_No._7","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257326"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/public-bath-no-7-85002275/"}