For African Americans Only Bathhouse - Hot Springs - Arkansas - National Baptist Hotel and Bathhouse - Closed in 1984 - - Historical

            Built in 1923 as the Woodmen of the Union Building, this hotel, bathhouse, and performance venue quickly became the center of African American culture in Hot Springs. It housed virtually every great Negro League player and entertainer who visited the city. Famed entertainer, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson stayed here. He was a close friend of Babe Ruth and part owner of the New York Black Yankees. He was famous for leading parades through town, dancing the entire route.
In 1948, the National Baptist Convention bought one of the African American bathhouses, the Woodmen of the Union Building.  The building featured first class hotel accommodations, a 2000 seat theater, a conference auditorium, gymnasium, print shop, beauty parlor, and newsstand.  Because they were denied service at other medical facilities in the city, the building also served as the primary health care facility for the African American community, housing a hospital, doctor and dental offices, and a nurses’ training school.   The hospital provided treatment to members free of charge, as well as to black indigent patients referred from other healthcare facilities in the city.  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended the legal sanction for segregation of public places 127
   

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Taken in: United States / Arkansas / Hale Township / Hot Springs Village (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1990

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