November 13, 1974

Bathhouse Row and its environs in Hot Springs National Park were placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The attractive Victorian-style bathhouses in the rough-frontier-town-turned-elegant-spa-city were completed in 1888 and replaced by fire-resistant brick and stucco bathhouses by 1923. After the decline of the bathing industry in Hot Springs (Garland County), the desire to revitalize downtown led citizens to campaign for adaptive uses of the vacant bathhouses on Bathhouse Row.