Dr Shepard's Sanitorium, 1863:

          home of the first Turkish bath in the United States of America
 


Dr Shepard's Sanitorium, 1863

Charles Shepard opened the first Turkish bath in the United States in this building on 3 or 6 October 1863.

Originally the baths only occupied No. 63, Columbia Street (on the left of the building), but in 1867 a new Men's bath was opened next door at No. 65, while the original baths at No. 63 were converted for use by women.

 

< Turkish baths: no. 63 Columbia Street, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. / Charles H Shepard. — New York : the baths, [1863]. — p.1              

 

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The first Turkish baths in the USA. Part 1: Brooklyn Heights
  

Victorian Turkish Baths:
their origin, development,
and gradual decline

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