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Other names: Buckhorn Mineral Wells, Buckhorn Mineral Baths, and Buckhorn Wildlife Museum
Maricopa County, AZ
Listed: 05/10/2005
The Buckhorn Baths Motel is significant at the state level under Criterion A, for its role in the development of tourism in twentieth-century Arizona, and under Criterion C, as an example of the Pueblo Revival style as manifested in commercial tourist architecture.
The Buckhorn Baths is the best-preserved historic mineral springs resort in Arizona, thanks in large measure to the fact that it was in operation as recently as 1999 and remained under a single owner throughout its history, without any major changes being made after its development in the 1940s. It also is representative of an important phase in the evolution of tourist lodging in Arizona and elsewhere in the United States, namely, the transformation of the motor court into the motel, which rapidly became the dominant form of lodging along highways across the country.
Finally, the Buckhorn Baths is an excellent and well-preserved example of the Pueblo Revival style, and in particular of how that style was used by the early developers of Arizona's modem tourist industry. By building a spa and motel in a "native" style and with materials that were indigenous to the region, the Sligers created a tourist environment with the romantic qualities and regional character necessary to attract patrons from across the country.
The development of the Buckhorn Baths began in 1936, when Theodore W. "Ted" and Alice Sliger bought a parcel of land east of Mesa and adjacent to U.S. Highways 60, 80, and 89. Although the surrounding land was almost entirely undeveloped desert, well outside the city limits of Mesa, it fronted on one of Arizona's most popular tourist routes, connecting the cities of the Salt River Valley not only with Florence and Tucson to the south but also with central Arizona, the Mogollon Rim, and the White Mountains in eastern Arizona.
In 1939, hoping to develop their own source of water, the Sligers sunk a well. They struck water, but what came up was far too hot to drink-112 degrees out of the ground-and filled with minerals. However, recognizing that a mineral baths would be a good tourist attraction, the Sligers capitalized on their new find by developing the hot springs. They built a bathhouse capable of serving 75 patrons each day, and cottages that allowed patrons to stay overnight. The Sligers continued to operate the gas station and store, as well as a cafe, but soon the mineral baths and motel operation eclipsed their other enterprises. At its peak, the motel could accommodate a hundred overnight guests. It offered patrons a cafe and dining room, a beauty parlor and gift shop, a post office, the museum with its collection of more than four hundred taxidermy specimens and assorted Indian relics (which also served as a lobby and television room), and a desert golf course with eighteen holes. Over the succeeding years, four additional hot water wells were dug and a contract post office was opened in 1956-it remained at the Buckhorn until 1983-but otherwise little changed at the resort.
The Buckhorn Baths is considered significant at the state level because, while there are a good number of Pueblo Revival tourist properties from this period still standing in Arizona, there are none that are as well preserved as this one and associated with a much rarer and less well-preserved component of the state's tourist economy, namely, mineral hot springs. Also, because OMS No. 1024-0018 Buckhorn Baths Motel Maricopa County, Arizona
the Buckhorn Baths is located on a major thoroughfare that passes through the state's largest metropolitan area, it has become something of a landmark for Arizonans - a symbol of a vanished world of leisurely desert tourism that has been overwhelmed by the urbanization (and suburbanization) of Phoenix and the Salt River Valley.
This is the original entrance to the White Rock Baths. They knew how to build in those days. The original plan was to make it a swimming pool and an aquarium but they ran out of money and just made it a pool - personally I would not like to share a pool with sharks!
The Govanhill Baths, closed in 2001 amidst outcry from the local and wider communities, has lain empty since.
The Govanhill Baths Community Trust, formed from a vibrant and determined grassroots campaign to save the Baths, is raising funds to renovate the Baths as a Health and Wellbeing Centre, run by the community for the community. We have recently been granted planning permission for the renovations.
The Trust's activities extend into many areas, including an exciting and developing programme of the arts. For further information, please visit the website www.govanhillbaths.com or get in touch at info@govanhillbaths.com
Enlightened Self interest led this local enterpreneur to build these baths. They are now funded by Sports Scotland.
The Port Glasgow Baths where built originally as the Baths and Wash House.
Joseph Russell who donated £5,700 for the construction, and the wash house was in use up until 1961.
39/52 for the group 2023 Weekly Alphabet Challenge
This week's theme was: M is for Model
I was fortunate this week to find a good subject when we visited the Roman Baths in Bath Spa. This is a model of what the whole complex would have looked like in Roman times.
Roman Baths Museum, Bath.
Theatrical Mask.
Relief carving of a colossal head in the form of a theatrical mask. Probably from a tomb.
Merewether Ocean Baths, NSW, Australia
As I was heading in to Newcastle for a photo-shoot I could see the moon low on the horizon so I decided to take the scenic drive along the coast. I couldn't resist a quick stop for a few photos when I got to Merewether Ocean Baths.
The Roman Baths themselves are below the modern street level. There are four main features: the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the Museum holding finds from Roman Bath. The buildings above street level date from the 19th century.
In October 1978, a young girl swimming with the Bath Dolphins (a local swimming club) in the restored Roman Bath contracted meningitis and died, leading to the closure of the bath for several years.
Bath, England
October / November 1983
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The ancient settlement developed around several mineral-rich springs (rising at 46ºC), which the Celts believed to have healing powers. These were dedicated to Sulis, the Celtic goddess of healing and sacred waters.
When the Romans arrived, soon after their invasion in 43 AD, they built a great temple beside the Sacred Spring, dedicated to Sulis Minerva, a deity, a hybrid of Sulis and Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom.
The Romans built grand bathing complexes around the hot springs, including the Great Bath, and came here to relax and take advantage of their reputed healing powers.
From the 18th century onwards the Roman baths were gradually rediscovered and became one of the city's main attractions.
The Spring Overflow is where the surplus water from the hot spring flows into a Roman drain. The drain carries all of the spa water from the Roman Baths site to the River Avon, 400 meters away.
These thermal baths, housed in a Neo-Baroque building, are in the Varosliget (City Park) and it is the largest spa complex in Europe. They are also the hottest in Budapest. We didn't go for a dip!
Image from the Darlington Local Studies picture collection. If you would like a copy of this image please contact local.studies@darlington.gov.uk quoting picture reference 'E730003122', or if you would like to see other images of the Darlington area please visit the Centre for Local Studies, at Darlington Library.
The Govanhill Baths, closed in 2001 amidst outcry from the local and wider communities, has lain empty since.
The Govanhill Baths Community Trust, formed from a vibrant and determined grassroots campaign to save the Baths, is raising funds to renovate the Baths as a Health and Wellbeing Centre, run by the community for the community. We have recently been granted planning permission for the renovations.
The Trust's activities extend into many areas, including an exciting and developing programme of the arts. For further information, please visit the website www.govanhillbaths.com or get in touch at info@govanhillbaths.com
I really should've gone in to see if indeed the building still held baths. And find out the difference between a Russian and Turkish Bath
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The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts, and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first baths. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.
Roman use of the building
The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years.During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (warm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath).[11] After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up, and flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.
About 130 curse tablets have been found. Many of the curses related to thefts of clothes whilst the victim was bathing.
Cottage baths were smaller, simpler and cheaper versions of public baths and concentrated on washing rather than swimming. Birmingham once had eight, all built around 1902 - 1914, but they had all closed by 1960. This may be the only one of the buildings that remains. Although converted to other uses, the City coat of arms and motto can be seen at first floor level.
The routine at the baths hardly varied. One paid and went through a turnstile to join the queue which on busy days might spill out on to the street. The front part of the queue sat on wooden benches, moving up each time the Attendant called "Next!". Children might suffer the injustice of losing their place in the queue when asked to give up a seat for an adult who was still standing, farther down the line. [Turrets, towels and taps / Rachel Wilkins. — Birmingham : City Museum and Art Gallery, 1984.]
For pictures of the inside of the baths, see here
Photos:
Rachel Adams Photography www.racheladamsphotography.com
Images from Plastic by 30 Bird Productions. This site-specific performance takes place Thu 22 to Sat 24 October in the amazing confines of Manchester's Victoria Baths.
Shows: 7pm and 8:30pm (Thu & Fri). 5pm and 7pm (Sat).
Tickets: £10/6
Booking: 0161 274 0600 / www.contact-theatre.org
You’re a man and you want to become a woman? Sex change, botox, pickle and jam, 30 Bird Productions invites you to experience a world of dark humour, music, dance and striking images taking place in the atmospheric confines of Manchester's Victoria Baths.
Plastic explores one man's quest to become a woman in a dynamic and stylish piece that combines video, theatre, music and dance in an intimate and surreal show.
'Took my breath away'
'Visually stunning'
'Incredibly atmospheric'
'Brilliant dance and movement'
'Have never seen Victoria Baths used so well - the space was tranformed'
Audience quotes from the preview on Wed 21 October
‘A succession of stylised vignettes whose relationship remains teasing and enigmatic’ The Guardian (four stars)
'All senses are arrested by this surreal, stylish, site specific piece’ 3 Weeks (four stars)
‘Superb dance and movement’ The Scotsman
‘Like an underworld imagined by Cocteau’ The List
Suitable for ages 12+.
Thermes de Constantin (Contantine's Baths), Arles, France. Dating from the 4th century, only a remnant of the original structure still stands, near the Rhone River. See www.world-heritage-tour.org/europe/france/arles/thermal-b....
Gellért Thermal Baths and Swimming Pool, also called Gellért fürdő or Gellért Baths, are a bath complex in Budapest, Hungary, built between 1912 and 1918 in the Art Nouveau style.
Some of the pilae in the West Baths. Pilae are piles of tiles through which hot air circulated to heat the floor and walls of the room above.
Manchester, UK by Andrew.
Victoria Baths, designed by Henry Price and opened by Manchester Corporation in 1906, are possibly the most extravagant baths built in the UK, with a wealth of tiling, mosaic and stained glass.
The baths was built with three swimming pools (Males First Class, Males Second Class, Females), Turkish Baths, wash baths and a wash-house. It was also later used as a dance hall and in the 1980s the Males Second Class pool was boarded over to form a sports hall. The baths ceased to operate in 1993 but a restoration programme is now in place.
The word frigidarium originates from the Latin word frigeo, which means "to be cold". The prominence of the room and its conjoining rooms showed the increase in popularity cold baths had during the early 4th century compared to the hot baths. This also could have been a result of the depletion of the surrounding forests, resulting in a lack of fuel. The frigidarium, or Cella frigidaria consisted of a pool and a host of smaller baths connected to the main room. Water entering the room would come from a pipe or cistern and would exit through a drain within the pool. The water from the pool was thought to have been reused to flush latrines within the complex. The frigidarium was used mainly as a swimming pool or a cold-water bath, depending on the time. Normally, one would continue on to the frigidarium after using the hot-water baths or after exercising in the palaestra. Noting the massive size of the room, it was believed to have also been used as a social room. This idea is supported by the presence of statues and elaborate niches along the walls. On each end of the frigidarium are large shallow pools that were made to be open-air bathing pools.