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Quapaw Bathhouse in Hot Springs, Arkansas OWNERSHIP The Quapaw Bathhouse on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, is being rehabilitated and will be operated as Quapaw Baths and Spa by a company with a passion for preserving historic structures. The company is owned by local businessman and experienced commercial developer Don Harper, award-winning architects Anthony Taylor and Robert Kempkes and New York businessman Steve Strauss. A 55 year lease was signed on April 10, 2007, between the National Park Service and Quapaw Baths, LLC. HISTORY Hot Springs National Park was the first reservation of land for public use by the US Government and in April, 2007, celebrated its 175th anniversary. Bathhouses started becoming a part of the growing Hot Springs landscape in the early 1800s and the government saw the need to protect the thermal waters for future generations. By the 1880s the bathhouses in Hot Springs rivaled those in the spas of Europe. The Quapaw was completed in 1922 as the moderately priced bathhouse with none of the extras such as beauty parlors. Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park was named a National Historic Landmark in 1974. The Quapaw was last operated by Health Services, Inc. in 1984. FEATURES The Quapaw Bathhouse is a Spanish Colonial Revival style building of masonry and reinforced concrete finished with stucco. The most impressive exterior feature is the large central dome covered with brilliantly colored mosaic tiles and capped with …
On June 26,2009 I drove over to Hot Springs via Hwy7, on the way back around 5:45 pm I was driving down a stretch of road 12 miles north of Jessieville and a huge animal crossed the road in front of me. I was about 300 yds from it and at first I thought it appeared to be a bear but as I came closer it was was way to long and slender to be a bear. I am 5’8″ and it stood almost to my waist high. It was black in color and not brown. There was also a SUV behind me and they saw the same thing. So if it wasn’t a bear then what could it be? I have read several articles that says black panthers don’t exist in North America.
I’ve already got several responses… It was not a dog nor a house cat and yes at first site was bout .1 to .15 tenths of a mile from me but I got a lot closer before it had crossed the road and that’s when I realized it was not a bear… I know for a fact it was a Panther but why does everyone say there is none in Arkansas. I’m not an idiot to the outdoors. Just wanted input…my grandfather was an old wise man and had seen one many yrs ago in Johnson county, Clarksville to be exact.
Oops looked at calendar wrong, was June 19th… to error is human.
FYI :The Mountain Lion is known by several other names: cougar, puma, catamount, and panther.
My Son-N-Law and I go White Bass Fishing. We caught good numbers of White’s and a dozen Black Bass. We kept a few and released the rest. We caught the White’s on Rooster tails and the Blacks on Zoom Flukes
We caught good numbers of spawning Largemouth Bass fishing with Wacky Worms. The day started out with a mix of breaking White and Black Bass. My daughter and Seans wife Mary joined us for the first few hours.