{"nrhp_refnum":"85003365","name":"Public Bath House No. 2","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"27 Vineyard Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yonkers","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.94037438200007,"lon":-73.88815756799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-10-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story yellowish-orange brick municipal bath house at 27 Vineyard Avenue, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, built in 1898. It is one of the Yonkers Public Bath House thematic group.","why_significant":"It was the second of four original bath houses built by Yonkers to give sanitary facilities to working-class residents, and it is the city's oldest surviving bath house. It is an excellent example of Romanesque Revival design, and its plan became the prototype for later bath houses in Yonkers and a model for similar facilities elsewhere in the United States. It also represents the rise of municipal public health concern and a vanishing urban building type.","narrative":"Public Bath House #2 is a narrow two-story brick building at 27 Vineyard Avenue in Yonkers, completed in 1898 on a lot about 25 feet wide. Its yellowish-orange brick facade has a wide segmental-arched window flanked by arched entrances, five round-arched windows above, and a denticulated cornice with swags. A one-story brick ell extends behind. The city built it as the second of four bath houses for working-class residents whose apartments lacked bathing facilities. Designed in a plain Romanesque Revival manner, it avoided lavish display so as not to discourage poor patrons. Its layout of reception area, custodian's apartment and baths, with separate entrances for men and women, became the model for later Yonkers bath houses and similar buildings elsewhere. The interior was rebuilt in 1928. The city closed the facility in 1962, and the building was later gutted for church use. It remains the oldest surviving Yonkers bath house.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Decommissioned as a bath house in 1962 and converted to a church use; the interior was gutted and has no significant features. Condition is listed as deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.938814-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85003365.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003365/4ddc775e99-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003365/4ddc775e99-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"ALT55 - Victor M","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yonkers_-_2013_072_-_Public_Bath_House_No.2,_27_Vineyard_Ave.,_Front_side.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">ALT55 - Victor M</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yonkers_-_2013_072_-_Public_Bath_House_No.2,_27_Vineyard_Ave.,_Front_side.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315497","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Bath_House_No._2","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257323"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/public-bath-house-no-2-85003365/"}