Tinted posted card of front of Pythian Sanitarium and Bathhouse in 1924. It is a four-story building with gray possibly limestone lower level and tan colored brick on the upper stories. There's an ornamentation of horizontal rectangles between the second and third stories and above the fourth story below the roof line. At that level there is also a dentition line directly above the windows. The windows and door of the street level are not symmetric while the widows on the upper levels are with a large central window, flanked by angled oriels, with a double paned window centered between the oriels and the end of the building. There is what looks like another storefront entrance at the far left end of the building because there is an inset doorway. There are red and yellow striped awnings that are pulled in on the street level windows and the second and third story central windows.
Pythian Bathhouse and Sanitarium Post Card ca. 1924
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The Pythian, named for its proprietors, the Knights of Pythias, stood on the site of the former Crystal Bathhouse. African American W.T. Bailey, head of the architecture department of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, designed the building.
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