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Although Beirut is thousands of years old, there’s very little to indicate that it’s been around for any more than a couple of centuries. During the reconstruction of the city, Solidere uncovered and preserved a few bits and pieces, including these Roman baths near the Grand Serail.
Sutro Baths in San Francisco
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Opened in 1906 by the Lord Mayor of Manchester who described it as a 'water palace of which every citizen of Manchester is proud', The Victoria Baths on Hathersage Road in Chorlton-on-Medlock were designed as a prestigious baths complex by Manchester's first City Architect, Henry Price back in 1902. No expense was spared in the design and construction of the Baths, Manchester having at that time one of the world's wealthiest municipal coffers. The façade has multi-coloured brickwork and terracotta decoration, the main interior public spaces are clad in glazed tiles from floor to ceiling and most of the many windows have decorative stained glass including the famous Angel of Purity.
These baths are enclosed off the ocean by concrete walls. Obviously the water will be just as cold as the ocean and this brave man gets into the water... slowly.. gingerly.... brrrrr.....
The August 2009 Flickrmeet was to the old Victorian Swimming Baths on Moseley Road.
Even the Dog has it's own changing room!
The Friends of Moseley Roads Baths are trying to preserve and restore this historic building
The Roman Baths complex is a site of historical interest in the English city of Bath. The house is a well-preserved Roman site for public bathing.
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.
The Baths are a major tourist attraction and, together with the Grand Pump Room, receive more than one million visitors a year. Visitors can see the Baths and Museum but cannot enter the water.
Roman Baths Museum, Bath.
Temple Baths and Spring : 1st century AD.
The Temple and baths were built around 65-75 AD. They formed one of the finest structures in Roman Britain.
A stone reservoir was built around the Sacred Spring to collect the hot water and feed it to the baths. The reservoir was in a corner of a colonnaded courtyard. In the centre of this open-air precinct stood the classical Temple of Sulis Minerva.
The wooden model shows the complex at its greatest extent in the 4th century AD.
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.
Mývatn nature baths are considered the blue lagoon of the north... we much fewer tourists -> ideal after a long day of hiking ;-)
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.
Govanhill Baths
Glasgow
Scotland Sept 2010
Built in the early 1900's, the public bathouse has been closed since 2001 and a Community Trust is seeking to preserve and redevelop the site as a public heath facility
Open as part of Doors Open in Glasgow
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+.
The people in this shot give some perspective and insight into how even more grand the Baths of Caracalla must have been in Ancient Rome.
After yesterdays miserable sunrise I took the ndx500 to Newcastle Baths for a play!!
Quite happy with the results......
After I finished my night shift this morning, I walked out to a lovely day. It dawned on me that I had my camera with me and it was too good a chance to miss out on [considering I was already up at that hour !] I wandered down to the wading pool and the ocean baths and got some great photos. I was amazed at the number of people out and about; I guess it is coming up to Summer and the weather was beautiful on the beach with a slight breeze!
inside the Roman baths.
Photo by: Robert and Regina M, USA
Viator.com link: Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath Day Trip from London
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Roman Baths , Bath.
The Great Roman Bath, 1st century AD, with superstructure by John McKean Brydon, 1895-97.
Stucco 2 story with all the work done. Updated kitchen counter bar, newer furnace, 3 BR, 2 full baths. Upper level laundry, heated BA floor & sun room. Several new doors & interior painted.
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