Committee, B: Brookline Public Bath -

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Excerpt from Brookline Public Bath: Reports of the Building Committee and of the Committee on Care and Management; With an Appendix Containing a Description of the Building, Illustrations, Schedule of Hours, Etc

The general contractors were Messrs. King d: Hodge, the heating and ventilating plant was put in by Messrs. Kenrick Brothers, and the plumbing by Mr. F. F. Muldowney, all of Brookline.

The plans of the building were perfected only after earnest and careful investigation, by the original committee, of the best public and private swimming establishments in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, West Point and Annapolis. Plans, descriptions, and reports from more distant bathing establish ments, notably London and Birmingham, England, Stuttgart and Hamburg, Germany, were obtained by the committee, and the best features of all these establishments have been utilized by both the committee and the architect, Mr. F. Joseph Unter see of Brookline, and appear to advantage in the new building.

The result of the committee's labors is a handsome, T-shaped brick building, fronting upon Tappan street. The location is at Brookline Hills station, about the center of population of the town, is close to the new High School and faces the principal public playground. The head-house has a handsome main entrance in the center, with a vestibule, hall, and waiting room. The main part of the building contains the natatorium, specta tors' gallery, running track and dressing rooms, and is well lighted, well ventilated, and commodious. The main tank is 80 feet long and 26 feet wide, and has an average of feet Of water. The bottom of the tank slopes gradually, and is four feet deep at one end and seven feet at the other. Around the swimming-hall are 42 dressing-rooms, with a passageway on either side. At one end of the swimming hall are three rain baths, at the other, two; these are for the preliminary cleans ing bath required of all before entering the swimming tank.

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