Buckstaff Bathhouse : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Buckstaff Bathhouse / Ken Lund
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| 説明 | Buckstaff Bathhouse, the one bathhouse (one of two now that Quapaw has reopened) where you can sit in the old school baths 1920s-style. We didn't partake on this particular day. Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas. Completed in 1912, the elegantly designed Buckstaff Baths is the only remaining bathhouse in the row still in active use. Operating under National Park Service regulations, its well-trained staff provides a range of services from tradition thermal mineral baths and body massages to Swedish style full body massages. The bathing tubs are private and bathing suits are optional, although visitors may cover themselves between the bathing stations. Services begin with a "Whirlpool Mineral Bath" for $22.00.The cream-colored brick building is neoclassical in style with the base, spandrels, friezes, cornices and the parapet finished in white stucco. It was a radical departure from the fanciful structures that preceded it, and compared to the Irish House of Parliament or the Treasury Building. The entrance is divided into seven bays by engaged columns, with a pavilion on each end.Friezes above the two-story doric columns have medallions (paterae) that frame the brass lettered words "Buckstaff Baths" centered above the entrance. Brass handrails border the ramp that leads up to the brass-covered and glazed wood frame entrance doors. First floor windows are arched; second story windows are rectangular. Those on the third floor are small rectangular windows, with classical urns between them above the cornice that finish the columns. The first floor of the building contains the lobby and men's facilities. Women's facilities are on the second floor. The third floor is a common space containing reading and writing rooms and access to the roof-top sun porches at the north and south ends of the building.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathhouse_RowView from Scenic Mountain Drive up Hot Springs Mountain in Hot Springs National Park, Hot Springs, Arkansas.Hot Springs is the 10th most populous city in the U.S. state of Arkansas, the county seat of Garland County, and the principal city of the Hot Springs Metropolitan Statistical Area encompassing all of Garland County. According to 2008 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 39,467.Hot Springs is traditionally best known for the natural spring water that gives it its name, flowing out of the ground at a temperature of 147 degrees Fahrenheit (64 degrees C). Hot Springs National Park is the oldest federal reserve in the USA, and the tourist trade brought by the famous springs make it a very successful spa town.The city takes its name from the natural thermal water that flows from 47 springs on the western slope of Hot Springs Mountain in the historic downtown district of the city. About a million gallons of 143-degree water flow from the springs each day. The rate of flow is not affected by fluctuations in the rainfall in the area. Studies by National Park Service scientists have determined through carbon dating that the water that reaches the surface in Hot Springs fell as rainfall in an as-yet undetermined watershed 4,000 years earlier. The water percolates very slowly down through the earth’s surface until it reaches superheated areas deep in the crust and then rushes rapidly to the surface to emerge from the 47 hot springs.A small channel of hot spring water known as Hot Springs Creek runs under ground from an area near Park Avenue to Bath House Row.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Springs,_Arkansasen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_... |
| 撮影日 | 2004-03-18 21:18:53 |
| 撮影者 | Ken Lund , Reno, Nevada, USA |
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| 撮影地 | Arkansas, United States 地図 |
| カメラ | Canon PowerShot A70 , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/640) |
| 開放F値 | f/2.8 |
| 焦点距離 | 9846.153846 dpi |