Laight Street, New York

                     

 

Two rooms at the Laight Street Turkish baths, 1867

The sudatorium and tepidarium in Dr Miller's Turkish baths at 13 Laight Street, Manhattan, New York, in 1867.

This establishment, the first in Manhattan, was opened by Drs Miller, Wood & Co. The bath was still in existence in 1881, but by then it was owned by a Dr M L Holbrook, and known as the Hygienic Hotel and Turkish Bath Institute.

< The Eastern or Turkish bath: with its history, revival in England, and application to the purposes of health / Erasmus Wilson. — New York : Miller, Wood, 1867. — p.8

  

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The first Turkish baths in the USA. Part 2: Manhattan
Urquhart and the London Hammam. Part 1: introduction
  

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