Quapawbaths

Quapaw Bathhouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas OWNERSHIP The Quapaw Bathhouse on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, is being rehabilitated and will be operated as Quapaw Baths and Spa by a company with a passion for preserving historic structures. The company is owned by local businessman and experienced commercial developer Don Harper, award-winning architects Anthony Taylor and Robert Kempkes and New York businessman Steve Strauss. A 55 year lease was signed on April 10, 2007, between the National Park Service and Quapaw Baths, LLC. HISTORY Hot Springs National Park was the first reservation of land for public use by the US Government and in April, 2007, celebrated its 175th anniversary. Bathhouses started becoming a part of the growing Hot Springs landscape in the early 1800s and the government saw the need to protect the thermal waters for future generations. By the 1880s the bathhouses in Hot Springs rivaled those in the spas of Europe. The Quapaw was completed in 1922 as the moderately priced bathhouse with none of the extras such as beauty parlors. Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park was named a National Historic Landmark in 1974. The Quapaw was last operated by Health Services, Inc. in 1984. FEATURES The Quapaw Bathhouse is a Spanish Colonial Revival style building of masonry and reinforced concrete finished with stucco. The most impressive exterior feature is the large central dome covered with brilliantly colored mosaic tiles and capped with ...



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