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Turkish baths in North America

Last updated: 26 August 2010
           

Establishments are arranged alphabetically by country, city, and address.

Dates in red are sightings
Dates in blue are accurate openings or closures to the best of our knowledge

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Canada United States of America

 

This table was last updated on 26 August 2010

           

Any Turkish baths which might still remain open in Canada
are not specifically indicated as such in the table

                

DAWSON CITY: Turkish Baths

1898

EDMONTON: Jasper Ave (9608): Edmonton (post-1937 Georgia) Turkish Baths

1913—1978

HALIFAX: Hollis St (57): Turkish Baths

1898

HAMILTON: Dominion / MacNab St: Dominion Turkish Baths (Richard Crooks)

 

HAMILTON: James Street North: Turkish Baths (Dr Vernon)

1876—

MONTREAL: Dorchester Street West (580) Crescent Turkish Bath

1908—1922

MONTREAL: Monique St (140-144): The Turkish Bath Hotel (McBean's)

1869—1911

MONTREAL: Vitre St / Joté St: Turkish Baths

1863

QUEBEC: Hotel Manoir Victoria  (Destroyed by fire)

1895—1902

TORONTO: Bannatyne Ave (283-5): Travellers Building Turkish Baths

 1906—1940s

TORONTO: Centre Ave (34-6): Russian Turkish

 

TORONTO: King St West (176): Cook’s Turkish Baths

1874 —1949

TORONTO: Queen West (223): Toronto Turkish and Vapor Baths (Dr Diamond)

1876—1890

TORONTO: Yonge St: W T Pember's Art Hair Goods House & Turkish Baths

 1897

VANCOUVER: Sultan Turkish Baths

1907

VICTORIA: Crystal Garden

1925—1967?

VICTORIA: Government Street (87): San Francisco Turkish Baths

1891,2,3

VICTORIA: Bastion Square (6): Victoria Turkish Baths

 1892-3

VICTORIA: Yates Street (76): Turkish-Electric Baths

      1893     
   

 

United States of America Canada
 

This table was last updated on 29 August 2010

 

The handful of Turkish baths which might still remain open in the USA
are not specifically indicated as such in the table

 

Alaska

Cordova: Main St: Turkish Baths

1910

Juneau: Juneau Sanitarium (Lying-in Hospital for Ladies) Turkish baths

1910

Juneau: Treadwell Club

1912

Valdes: Turkish Bath

1915

California

Los Angeles: 2nd St: Hammam Turkish Baths

1896

Los Angeles: W 7th St (431): Los Angeles Athletic Club

1912—1920

Los Angeles: W 3rd St (219): Metropolitan Barber Shop & Turkish Bath

1911

Los Angeles: Eastlake Sulphur Baths: Turkish Baths

1903

Los Angeles: Grand Ave: Biltmore [Hotel] Turkish Baths

1930s

Los Angeles: Redondo Beach Turkish Baths

1909—1941

Los Angeles: South Broadway (535): Ladies' Turkish Baths

c.1900

Los Angeles: South Main St (230): Turkish and Other Baths

1895

Los Angeles: South St/Hill St: Consol.Realty Bldg:Sultan Turkish Baths

1913

Los Angeles: Venice Beach: Main Street: Turkish Baths

c.1910

San Diego: 4th St: Turkish Baths

c.1910

San Diego: San Diego Club: Lurline Massage Institute Turkish Baths

1934

San Francisco: Bush St/Larkin St: Turkish Baths (Men only)

 

San Francisco: Ellis St: Turkish Baths (Men only)

 1911—1980s

San Francisco: The Hammam

1875—

San Francisco: Market St (957): The Empress Turkish Baths

 1913

San Francisco: Post St (222): The Post Street Turkish Baths

 1894, 1901

San Francisco: Post St (624): Sultan Turkish Baths

1905—1928

San Francisco: Calvin Huyett's Turkish Baths (destroyed in 'quake)

—1906

Colorado

Colorado Springs: Broadmoor Hotel Turkish Baths

1918—

Denver: 17th St (321): Brown Palace Hotel Turkish Baths

 1892—  

Denver: Larimer (450): J M Case Turkish Baths

 1874, 1875

Denver: Windsor Hotel Turkish Baths

 1896, 1897

Connecticut

Hartford: Asylum Street (167-9): Hartford Turkish Bath

         

Hartford: Easton's Turkish Bath

1884

Meridou: Easton's Turkish baths

1884

New Haven: Turkish Bath

    1890s    

New Haven: Yale University Gymnasium Turkish Bath

1890—1932

New Haven: Temple Street (152): Hotel Liberty Turkish Baths

  

Wallingford: Wallingford Turkish Bath

  1875   

Waterbury: Turkish Bath (Propr: WG Schlegel) (Destroyed in city fire 2 Feb)

  —1902      

District of Columbia

Washington: East Street (903): Shedd's Turco-Russian Baths

  1872   

Washington: Grand Union Station Turkish Baths

  1908—

Washington: Rowland's Turkish Bath

1907

Florida

Jacksonville: Windsor Hotel Turkish Bath and Treatment Rooms

1912

Key West: Gato's VIllage: Dr Fraga's Turkish Baths

c.1888

St Augustine: Alcazar Hotel Turkish Bath

1888—1910+

Georgia

Atlanta: Decatur St (10): Turkish Baths

1889

Atlanta: Dr Stainback's Hygienic Institute and Turkish Bath 

1877

Illinois

Bloomington: Turkish and Electro-Thermal Bath Institute (Hy Conkling)

1879—

Chicago: Michigan Blvd / 23rd St: Metropole Hotel Turkish Baths

 1891

Chicago: Palmer House Turkish Baths

1880s, 1890s

Chicago: The Avenue Turkish Baths

1870—

Chicago: West North Avenue (2039): Turkish Russian Baths

 

Collinsville: Seminary St: Bischoff's Turkish Bath House

1909

Galeburg: Union Hotel and Turkish Bath

1912

Peoria: Main Street (319): Peoria Turkish baths

-1911—1956+

Quincy: Jersey Ave (514) 

1903-1931

Springfield: Pierik Bldg: Turkish Bath Parlors (John E Jackson, Mgr)

1902

Indiana

La Porte: Michigan Ave / Jefferson Av: Stewart's Turkish Baths & Barbers

1911

Iowa

Burlington: Sloth Hill: Turkish Baths

1877

Davenport: Turkish Baths

1878

Dubuque: Turkish Baths

1878

Marshalltown: Lincoln Hwy: Jensen's Tourist Inn & Sanitarium Turkish baths

1922—

Mason City: Turkish Bath & Treatment Parlor

 

Postville: Parker's Barber Shop, John Moir's Turkish Baths

1887

Prairie du Chien: Turkish Baths

1887

Waterloo: Waterloo Sulphur and Turkish Baths

1942

Kansas

Atchinson: Baird Wilson's Turkish Baths

1879—1882+

Hutchinson: W 1st St (28) The F  A Manda Salt Water Natatorium

1908—

Kentucky

Louisville: Galt House Turkish Bath

1869—1919

Louisiana

New Orleans: Jung Hotel Turkish Bath

1930

New Orleans: Bourbon St: Osborne Turkish Bath

   1898    

New Orleans: Canal St: Ladies' Turkish Bath

  1925—1949  

New Orleans: St Charles Ave (211): St Charles Hotel Turkish Bath

1903—1974

Maryland

Baltimore: Howard St: Turkish Baths

—1905     

Baltimore: Madison Ave (2100): Turkish Baths and Gymnasium

 1901—

Baltimore: James Kerman's Turkish Baths: New Auditorium Theatre

 1904—  

Baltimore: Rowland's Turkish Baths

 1920s  

Hagerstown: Turkish baths

 1908    

Massachusetts

Boston: Beacon St (17): Dr Browning's, Bellevue, Turkish Baths (Dis Lewis)

1876, 1930s  

Boston: Exeter St / Boylston St: Boston Athletic Association Clubhouse

1889—1936

Boston: Massachusetts Ave (337): Massachusetts Baths

1913   

Boston: St Botolph St (42): Lundin's Turkish Baths for women

1911, 1928  

Boston: Tremont St (176):Tremont Turkish Baths for men (Adolph S Lundin)

1901, 1914 

Boston: Washington St (1427): Boston Turkish and Vapor Baths

1871   

Boston: Essex Street: Dr Adam's Turkish Baths

1867—

Lawrence: Prospect St (334): Dr Louis F Eidam's Turkish Baths

1880s  

Springfield: Cooley House: D F Sweeney's Turkish & Russian Baths

1894—

Springfield: Court Street: Springfield Turkish Baths (E E Pratt)

1880s  

Worcester: Sudbury St (1): Jensen’s Turkish, Russian, Roman Baths

1897, 1908  

Michigan

Hancock: Reservation (306)

 

Saginaw: N Hamilton (208): Turkish Baths

 1902-7

Minnesota

Duluth: Kassmir's Turkish Bath Parlors

1903

Minneapolis: Metropolitan Building: Turkish Baths

1890—

Minnesota: Hyndman Electro-Medical Institute Turkish Baths

1874

Moorhead: 4th St South (13): Peter J Roberts, Turkish Baths

1915

Mississippi

Biloxi: Buena Vista Hotel Turkish Baths

1930s

Detroit: W Vernor Highway (1377): New Detroit Turkish Baths

  1930s  

Joplin: Keystone Barber Shop and  Turkish Bath

1912

Missouri

Kansas City: New Coates House Turkish Bath

1891 ,1898

St Louis: Grand Ave/Franklin Ave: Vista Turkish Bath House

1902

St Louis: Lucas Ave/4th St: Belcher Water Bath and Hotel Company

  1910s  

St Louis: North Seventh St (311):  Dr Adams Turkish Bath House

  1873—

St Louis: Washington Ave (1603): Dr Adams Turkish Bath House

  1869—1874

Nebraska

Beatrice: Turkish, Electro-medicated and Russian Baths

  1887—

Omaha: Farnam St (1424) Turkish baths (J F Faux)

1890

Omaha: Dr Dinsmoor's Sanitarium Turkish baths

1878?, 1882

Omaha: Iler Grand Hotel: European Plan Turkish baths

1901  

New Jersey

Atlantic City: President Hotel Turkish Baths

1934  

Newark: Charlton St (36): The Charlton Baths

1920s, 1930s

Newark: Howard St (147): The Howard Baths

1920s, 1930s

Newark: Mercer St (32): The Mercer Baths

1920s, 1930s

Paterson: Charles Haeberle's Turkish baths

 -1907—1940s

Paterson: Church Street (45): Luxor Turkish baths

1907  

New York

Albany: State St (163) Turkish baths Russian baths

1890  

Binghampton: Main St (40½) Turkish baths

1920  

Buffalo: Delaware Avenue (207) BPOE HQ for Elks

1940s

Buffalo: E Mohawk St (40-44): Mohawk Baths: Turkish, Sulpher, Electric, Russian Baths 

1890s, 1930

Buffalo: Main St (663) : Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute T Baths

1878, 1894

Buffalo: Monument D S Morgan Building: Turkish Baths

1909, 1912

Elmira: East Hill: Elmira Water Cure Turkish Baths (Rachel Brooks Gleason)

1880

Elmira: Lake St (167): Palace Turkish Baths (Peter Flynn)

1917

New York City: 2nd Ave (146): Emile Pisco's Russian and Turkish Baths

1897

New York City: 5th Ave (146): Abel Easton's Turkish Baths

1881

New York City: 5th Ave / W 34th St: Waldorf-Astoria Turkish Baths

1905,  —1929

New York City: 3rd St (306): Fensterheim's Turkish Baths

1914

New York City: 14th St: New York Turkish Baths

1872, 1877

New York City: 46th St, Brooklyn: Turkish Baths (Destr. Windsor Hotel fire)

—1899

New York City: 59th St/6th Ave: New York Athletic Club

 1898—

New York City: E 4th St (26): Browning's Russian and Turkish Baths

1869, 1884

New York City: E New York Ave (1387), Brooklyn: Shumer's Turkish Baths

1919

New York City: W 24th St (7): Imperial (later, Hollman House) Turkish Baths

  1876—1887+

New York City: W 26th St (41): Miller's Turkish, Electric, and Roman Baths

  1870—1891+

New York City: W 28th St (28): Men's Turkish Baths (Everard Baths)

1888—1985  

New York City: W 42nd St (47):  Fleischman's Turkish & Russian Baths

1893, 1935  

New York City: W 46th St (121): Luxor Baths Hotel: Turkish & Russian Baths

?

New York City: W 73rd St (253): Level Club (Masonic hotel): Turkish Baths

1931  

New York City: W125th St, Harlem: Frederick Hollender's Turkish Baths 

1901—

New York City: Broadway: Turkish, Russian and Greek Baths

1890s  

New York City: Broadway: Woolworth building

1913—

New York City: Broadway (842): Turkish Baths

1870  

New York City: Broadway (1265-9): Herald Square Turkish Baths

1908  

New York City: Broadway (2109): Ansonia Hotel Turkish Baths

1904—1967

New York City: Broome St/The Bowery: Easton's Gentlemen's Turkish baths

1882, 1884

New York City: Bushwick Avenue: St Catherine's Hospital Turkish Bath

1896—

New York City: Clark St (51) Brooklyn: Hotel St George Turkish Baths

1885—1940s 

New York City: Clinton St (32): The Brooklyn Turkish Bath Co

1880—1902+

New York City: Columbia St (63) Brooklyn: Dr Shepard's Turkish Baths

Note 1 below

New York City: Court St (177) Brooklyn: Turkish Baths

1867—

New York City: Delancey St: Libby's Hotel and Russian-Turkish Baths

1926—1929

New York City: Essex St (102): Abraham Levy's Turkish Baths

  1896  

New York City: Herald Square: McAlpin Hotel Turkish Baths

1905, 1917

New York City: Hester St (21-23): Abraham Stern's Turkish & Russian Baths

1905

New York City: Jay St (302): Turkish Baths

  1884—

New York City: Lafayette Pl (188): Turkish Baths

1877—

New York City: Laight St: Hygienic Hotel and Baths Institute, 

Note 2 below

New York City: Lee Ave: William Smyer's Turkish Baths

 

New York City: Lexington Ave (61): Dr Angell's Turkish Baths

1867—1887+

New York City: Madison Ave: Colony Club Turkish Baths

1907—

New York City: Raymond St: Benton's Turkish Baths for horses

1876

New York City: Smith St, Burham's Academy of Phys. Culture,Turkish Bath

    1869—   

New York City: Biltmore Hotel, Biltmore Baths

1931

New York City: Manitoba Hotel Turkish Baths

1896

New York City: Pennsylvania Hotel Turkish Baths

1924, 1925

Olean: Turkish baths

1885

Rochester: Chestnut St (50): Columbus Club Turkish Baths

1929

Rochester: N Fitzhaugh St (44-46): New Turkish Bath Hotel

1910, 1920

Rochester: State St (59 & 61): Turkish Baths (Chas S Hussey)

1870, 1875

Saratoga Springs: S Broadway (99): Washington Bath House

-1900—1917

Saratoga Springs: Dr Strong's Sanitarium Turkish Baths

1860s, 1913

Syracuse: YMCA Turkish Baths (William M'Clements)

1919

Syracuse: E Jefferson St (208): La Concha Turkish Baths

1893, 1894

Syracuse: Market St (117): Turkish Baths

1924

Utica: Blandina St (17): Turkish Baths (William M'Clements)

1893

Watertown:State St (22): Meyer & Gibson Turkish Baths

1904

North Dakota

Fargo: Broadway (305-7): Dixon Building: Ladies' Turkish Bath

   1905—

Ohio

Cincinnati: Hotel Munro Turkish Baths

 

Cincinnati: Hotel Newland and Turkish Baths

 

Cleveland: Jung's Turkish Baths

1927, 1935

Columbus: East Broad Street (112) U E Whiteis Turkish Baths (Men)

1912

Columbus: East Broad Street (150) U E Whiteis Turkish Baths (Women)

1912

Columbus: Grant Hospital Turkish Baths

   1910   

Lima: Turkish Baths

  1889  

Mansfield: Mansfield Turkish Bath and Treatment Rooms (Marcellus Andre)

  1912  

Newark: Turkish Baths for Ladies

1886

Toledo: Superior (216)

1887, 1902

Toledo: Widell Hotel and Turkish Baths

 

Wheeler: Turkish Baths

1903—

Oregon

Portland: N W Everett (707): Golden West Hotel Turkish Baths

 1905-1929

Portland: Dr Torea's Turkish Baths

 1888

Pennsylvania

Lititz: Lititz Springs Sanitarium: Turkish and Russian Baths

1908—

Meadville: Trust Company Building: Turkish Bath Parlours

 1910 -ish

Philadelphia: 12th St: Turkish Baths

 c.1905—1970s

Philadelphia: N 7th St (973): Bershad's New Turkish & Russian Baths

 1905 -ish

Philadelphia: N 10th St/Filbert St, The Bathurst Hotel

 1898

Philadelphia: S 3rd St (511-3):Weiner's Turkish baths

 1910 -ish

Philadelphia: Camac St/Walnut St: Camac Turkish Baths

 

Philadelphia: Chestnut St (1330) ?: Turkish Baths

  

Philadelphia: Chestnut St (1820) ?: Turkish Baths

 1885 

Philadelphia: S Broad St/Walnut St: Bellevue-Stratford Hotel Turkish Baths

   1904—1976 

Philadelphia: Walnut St: Turkish and Russian Baths

   1891— 

Pittsburgh: Liberty Ave (937): Schume Turkish Baths

 early 1900s

Wilkes Barre: Alexander Schwarz's Russian and Turkish Baths

1890—1892+

Rhode Island

Providence: Aborn St (9): Sanitary Gymnasium, Russian & Turkish Baths

 1890, 1913

South Dakota

Aberdeen: South Main (513): S H Logan's Turkish Baths

1877

Deadwood: Main St (628) Fairmont Hotel Turkish Baths

1898, 1907

Mitchell: Wade and Babcock Turkish Bath Rooms

1909

Mitchell: E 5th St (1112): Smith's Turkish Bath & Treatment

1923

Tennessee

Knoxville: Gay St: Lovell's Electro-Turkish Bath 

-1915—1932+

Knoxville: Walnut St: Raymond Lovell's Sanatorium Turkish Bath 

1905—191?

Nashville: Charles Breyer's Russian and Turkish Baths  

1890s

Texas

Austin: 6th St / Congress Ave: Littlefield Building Turkish Baths 

1916—  

Fort Worth: The National Turkish Bath

 

Houston: Bender Hotel

1920s—2004

Utah

Salt Lake City: Turkish Baths

 1870—

Salt Lake City: W 3rd South Street (52): The Sanitarium Turkish Baths

 1912—1920

Salt Lake City: W 3rd South Street (127): Hamilton Hotel Turkish Baths

 —c.1900

Virginia

Norfolk: Atlantic St (55): Turkish Baths and Rooms

1910

South Hill: Stevens Point Turkish Baths

1877

Washington

Seattle: Pioneer Square Turkish Baths

1890s, 1910  

Spokane: Coeur d'Alene Hotel (?): Turkish Baths

1894—

Takoma: Pacific Ave (1130): Tacoma Turkish Baths

1890s—1920s

West Virginia

Berkeley Springs: Turkish Bath House

1887, 1910s

Huntington: 4th Ave (940) Frederick Hotel Turkish Baths

1906—1973

Parkersburg: Herschel's Turkish-Russian Baths

1907

Wheeling: S Eoff St (3327-3331): Haskins Hospital Turkish Baths

1900—1915

Wisconsin

La Crosse: Main St (204): Turkish Baths (J C Perkins, Propr)

1895

La Crosse: Main St (318-20): Linker Hotel, Barber Shop and Turkish Bath

1916—1937
images, notes

La Crosse: Main St (328): Linker Brothers Turkish Baths Parlors

1900—1916
images, notes

La Crosse: Main St (329): Linker Brothers Turkish Baths

1895
images, notes

La Crosse: Main St (329): Turkish Baths (Weidner & Taggart), (W H Webb)

1900, 1905

La Crosse: N 3rd St (125): Turkish Bath Institute (James L Peterson, Propr)

1890

La Crosse: S Front St (121): Turkish Bath Institute (Mather & Hemrick, Prs)

1885—

Milwaukee: E Wisconsin Avenue (424): Pfister Hotel Turkish Baths

1884—1920s

Milwaukee: Hotel Davidson Turkish Baths

1895

Milwaukee: Kaiser's Hair Bazaar and Turkish Baths

c.1910

Sparta: Sparta Turkish Bath Institute

1874

Watertown: N 2nd St: George Zoelle's Turkish Baths

1903—1942

 

 

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