{"nrhp_refnum":"85003367","name":"Public Bath House No. 4","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"138 Linden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yonkers","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.93095397900004,"lon":-73.89211635499998,"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 municipal public bath house at 138 Linden Street in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, built in 1925 to a design by local architect O.J. Gette. It sits on a corner lot and later served as a municipal pool.","why_significant":"It was the last of four bath houses built by Yonkers for its working-class population and one of only three similar buildings in the city. Its Renaissance Revival detailing and Spanish Mission style planar stucco walls reflect the City Beautiful movement and a move toward simpler ornament. Its large pool shows how bath houses evolved from sanitary facilities into recreational centers.","narrative":"Built in 1925 at 138 Linden Street in Yonkers, this public bath house was designed by local architect O.J. Gette and was the last of four bath houses the city built for its working-class residents. Its brightly colored pastel stucco facade combines Renaissance details, including a round-arched entrance with a rusticated surround, cartouches and Palladian-style windows, with the low tiled roof and flat wall surfaces of the Spanish Mission style. It stands across from the Mission style Enrico Fermi Middle School, and the two buildings complement each other. Inside, the reception and shower areas were modernized in 1961 under architect Maurice Capobianco, but the two-story pool room survives with pilasters, bleachers with ornamental spandrels and a plunge pool decorated with polychrome tile. The building shows how municipal baths shifted from plain sanitary facilities to mixed-use recreation centers, and it reflects City Beautiful ideas about civic architecture. It later became a municipal pool.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect O.J. Gette; builder unknown","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival detailing combined with Spanish Mission style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition; originally a public bath house and present use is a municipal pool. Interior reception and shower areas were modernized in 1961, while the pool room remains largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.379905-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/85003367.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003367/64b3f0a795-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003367/64b3f0a795-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Jim.henderson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Public_Bath_House_4_138_Linden_jeh.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim.henderson</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Public_Bath_House_4_138_Linden_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315495","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Bath_House_No._4","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7257324"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/public-bath-house-no-4-85003367/"}