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Everard Baths
History
The legendary Everard Baths, one of the longest long-lasting of New York’s bathhouses, attracted male lover men probably since its opening in 1888, but, as documented, from at least World War I until its closing in 1986.
The building began as the Free Will Baptist Church in 1860. In 1882, it was converted into the New-York Horticultural Society’s Horticultural Hall. It became the Regent Tune Hall in 1886-87, then the Fifth Avenue Music Hall, financed by James Everard. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Everard (1829-1913) came to New York Urban area as a male child, and eventually formed a masonry jobbing business that was successful in receiving a number of major city universal works contracts. With his profits, he invested in genuine estate after 1875, and built up one the country’s largest brewing concerns. (He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.)
After the Music Hall was closed by the City over the sale of beer there, Everard decided to keep his investment by turning the facility into a commercial “Russian and Turkish” bathhouse, opened in May 1888 at a cost of $150,000. Lushly appointed and with a variety of steam baths and 100 sleeping rooms, it had a prime location
NYC July 2021: West Side Club permanently closed? East Side Club only "bathhouse" left now in NYC?
On the plus side, the Crew Club in DC is reopening soon under new ownership and unused name.
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I've been eagerly awaiting the reopening of Hawks bathhouse in Portland, Oregon. They closed their original location last year (not sure if it was a lease issue more than Covid; their social media claimed last year they'd reopen in spring of 2021 in a nice and mark new undisclosed place.) But they haven't had any update in months, so maybe it won't take place. I visited both Hawks and Steam on diverse nights on my trip out there from Boston in 2012. Steam is open but has trim their hours and requires proof of vacinnation.
Both Seattle baths seem to possess reopened, as has Steamworks Chicago (but now closed a couple days each week for now).
Rochester, NY, has a bath which seems open part-time now. I want to perform a weekend drive from Boston to check out Ithaca, NY, and its colleges one weekend, so maybe i can divert to Rochester a several hours away.
And I wish to go to Colorado for my first check in, and Denver's remaining bath has reopened with li
Continental Baths at the Ansonia Hotel
History
In the late 1960s, Steve Ostrow, an entrepreneur and former opera singer, wanted to elevate the gay bathhouse experience from what were then seedy spaces to an enhanced destination as a health club and spa. At the time, homosexuality was illegal and most New York City LGBT bars were operated by the Mafia.
In 1968, he leased the vacant 40,000-square-foot, multi-level basement space of the once lavish Ansonia Hotel (then rental apartments), which previously housed its Turkish Baths and swimming pool area. Ostrow predicted that his new initiative would draw patrons away from other locations such as the well-established Everard Baths.
Ostrow initially created a space that he advertised as the recreation of the “glory of Ancient Rome.” It featured a disco twirl floor, pool with cascading waterfall, sauna rooms, bunk beds in public areas, and small confidential rooms. When it first opened on September 12, 1968, it contained 50 rooms and 200 lockers and operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Over moment, Ostrow added a cabaret and stage, restaurant, gym, licensed bar, STD clinic, clothing boutique, explore desk, an