Vichy Well Natatorium

Vichy Well Natatorium Metadata

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Title

Main Title Vichy Well Natatorium

Date

Creation: 1900?
Digitized: 2006-10-26

Language

English

Description

Content Description: An off-season (Winter?) picture of the Vichy Well Natatorium, once located in the 600 block of North Oak Avenue, where North Oak Community Center now [2008] stands is illustrated here. The picture is dated the time around 1900. The Vichy well featured a swimming pool, which it labelled a "Natatorium." Later improvements, when the name was changed to The Standard Well, included a motion-picture theater and a pavilion for dancing. (Note the Dr. A.W. Thompson residence and the Mineral Wells Sanitarium on the right skyline.) A USO was built on this location In World War II for white servicemen at Camp Wolters. The USO building was turned over to the city at the end of the war, and became known as the North Oak Community Center. Preservation efforts are underway [in 2008] to restore the Community Center.
Physical Description: 1 photograph : b&w

Subject

University of North Texas Libraries Browse Structure: Architecture
Keyword: Vichy Well Natatorium

Primary Source

Item is a Primary Source

Coverage

Place Name: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
Time Period: new-sou
Coverage Date: 1900?

Collection

Name: A. F. Weaver Collection

Code: AFWC

Institution

Name: Boyce Ditto Public Library

Code: BDPL

Rights

Rights Access: public

Resource Type

Photograph

Format

Image

Identifier

Accession or Local Control No: AWO_1698P
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth24968