Bathhouse Row Adaptive Use Program – The Quapaw Bathhouse: Technical Report 6

National Park Service. 1985. Bathhouse Row Adaptive Use Program – The Quapaw Bathhouse: Technical Report 6. Historic Structure Report. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center. Denver, Colorado

Hot Springs National Park was once known as Hot Springs Reservation. It was set aside in 1832 to protect the Park's primary resource, the hot springs.This type of Reservation was an early version of the National Park idea.Hot Springs was actually the first area in the United States to be set aside for its natural features.After Yellowstone was formed in 1872, Hot Springs was managed with it. In 1916 the National Park Service was formed and in 1921, Hot Springs Reservation changed its name to Hot Springs National Park, making it the 18th National Park in the Service. This report is number six in a series of seven technical reports prepared by the NPS Denver Service Center to provide technical information for use in the development of proposals by prospective lessees or concessioners and in the evaluation of proposals by the National Park Service. The reports describe the Bathhouse Row landscape and structures and provide detailed information on historical development, significance, and present conditions of the landscape and each vacant bathhouse. The Quapaw Bathhouse is a two-story structure with a basement containing about 24,000 square feet of space. Designed in the Spanish Revival style, this bathhouse has a long front facade with a narrow, partial second-story topped by an elegant dome, its most impressive exterior feature. The Quapaw has brick-masonry bearing walls, interior concrete columns, concrete beams, pans, and a combination of concrete joists and flat-slab construction. A full-story retaining wall makes up the rear wall of the building. This wall is of thick unreinforced concrete. The basement wall under the front part of the building is of similar construction.

Type
Published Report
Authors
National Park Service
Date of Issue
1985-06
Publisher
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Denver Service Center
Units
HOSP , MWR
Keywords
adaptive use, bathhouse, bathhouse row, concessions, hot springs, quapaw bathhouse, spanish revival style
Subjects
CRIS-HS: 000714: Quapaw Bathhouse

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