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Dr. David Goldberg, Professor of History at Cleveland State History, talks about the history of the Lincoln Park Baths, a bath house located in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood that was built in 1921. This edited clip was recorded during a walking…

WPA employees work on a construction project at the St. Clair Bathhouse in 1936.

A view of the front entrance of the Woodland Avenue Bathhouse in 1938. A man is walking alone into the men's bathhouse.

Inside the recreational basketball gymnasium at the bathhouse complex on St. Clair Avenue in 1940.

Five neighborhood children waiting in line to give their "checks" to the clerk, another neighborhood child, at the Orange Avenue Bathhouse in 1936.

A depiction of the empty shower stalls of the St. Clair Bathhouse in 1937. 2x4s are holding up the cieling that appears to be suffering from neglect.

Opened in 1921, the Lincoln Park Baths, located at 1201 Starkweather Avenue in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood, were designed to emulate Roman bathhouses. Community members, most of whom lacked modern plumbing facilities in their homes, could use…