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Hot Springs National Park
Ozark Bathhouse
color photo of Ozark Bathhouse from the south end of the building, with the sidewalk and lawn in front. It's a sunny day with a light blue sky with a few clouds. The Ozark is a white stucco building of the Spanish Colonial Revival style of architecture with a red tile roof and open porch.

Ozark Bathhouse

Designed by architects Mann and Stern of Little Rock, the bathhouse was completed in the summer of 1922, just a few months after the Quapaw opened for business. Built at a cost of $93,000 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, the building is set between low towers whose receding windows suggest the nascent Art Deco movement. Like the Quapaw, the Ozark was more impressive in its exterior facade than in its interior appointments, with only 14,000 square feet and twenty-seven tubs. It catered to a middle economic class of bathers unwilling to pay for frills. The Ozark closed in 1977.


The Museum of Contemporary Art of Hot Springs occupies the Ozark now.

Read a brief history of the Ozark.
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Black and white photo of the Government Free Bathhouse with a ranger walking on the sidewalk in front.

Did You Know?
The Public Health Service operated a venereal disease clinic in the Government Free Bathhouse (1922-1948) in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. It was one of the first facilities in the United States to use penicillin. In 1948, the clinic transferred to the nearby Camp Garraday Transient Camp.
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