Tag: Brookline Public Bath House

Spending the day at the Brookline Massachusetts public bathhouse which was built in 1897 and torn down in the mid 1950s. Built in an era when many apartments didn’t come with bathtubs or showers. Many cities and towns had one. The park down the hill from me had one, too.

Brookline Public Bath House, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA: Brookline Public Bath House on Tappan Street that opened January 1, 1897 and was designed by F. Joseph Untersee. Black and white photograph/postcard that I think is part of a pack of views of the bath house or views of Brookline. Undated, after 1897-ca. 1910. Rotograph Company, New York City and Germany, publisher. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:6t053t43t
Young woman drying her hair (I think), Brookline Public Bath House, Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts USA. Undated, after 1897 – 1910 when the hemlines started to change. Photograph. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87f9293
Library/study hall. Brookline Public Bath House, Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts USA. Undated image, after 1897 and before 1956. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87f9072
Municipal Gymnasium, Brookline. Brookline Public Bath House, Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts USA. Undated image, after 1897 and before 1956. Photograph. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87f923f
Boys’ showers. Brookline Public Bath House, Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts USA. Undated image, after 1897 and before 1956. Photograph. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87f903z
Main entrance. Brookline Public Bath House, Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts USA. September 1956 image, shot just before the bath house was torn down. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87f921w
Swimming pool. Brookline Public Bath House, Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts USA. September 1956 image, shot just before the bath house was torn down. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87f9179
Swimming pool. Brookline Public Bath House, Tappan Street, Brookline, Massachusetts USA. September 1956 image, shot just before the bath house was torn down. Cc0 License. Collections of the Brookline Public Library. via https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:sq87f911n

Torn down and a new pool built, but also by then most apartments came with bathtubs with bathtubs and showers so the need was not the same.