Bathhouse Row Adaptive Use Program – The Ozark Bathhouse: Technical Report 7
National Park Service. 1985. Bathhouse Row Adaptive Use Program – The Ozark Bathhouse: Technical Report 7. 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 seven 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. This report concerns the Ozark Bathhouse. The Ozark Bathhouse contains 14,000 square feet of space in its two above-ground stories and basement which are divided into 37 rooms. Designed in the Spanish Revival style by architects Mann and Stern of Little Rock between 1918 and 1921, the lower story of the front facade has a sunporch set between two low towers with flanking extensions at either end of the building. The lower half of the sunporch roof is covered with clay tiles and the upper half is a large skylight. The sunporch was originally open to the front, but was later enclosed by the addition of French doors, wide French casement windows, and colored-tile spandrils beneath the windows which replaced sections of open railing in the surrounding parapet. The Ozark construction is load-bearing, stuccoed-masonry exterior walls; load-bearing, plastered-masonry (brick and hollow tile) interior walls with a few concrete columns; and concrete pans and flat slabs. A portion of the basement walls is rock rubble that predates the 1921-22 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, ozark bathhouse, spanish revival style
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000715: Ozark Bathhouse
Series
See also
- Historic Structure Preservation Guide: The Ozark Bathhouse
- Historic Structure Report: Ozark Bathhouse
- Historic Structure Report: Ozark Bathhouse
- Rental Analysis: The Ozark Bathhouse, Central Avenue
- Water, Water Everywhere: A Brief Investigation of Deterioration in the Superior, Hale, Maurice, Quapaw, and Ozark Bathhouses