[2][3] On January 5, 1919, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice encouraged a police raid in which the manager and nine customers were arrested for lewd behavior.

[5] It was patronized by gay men before the 1920s and by the 1930s had a reputation as the "classiest, safest, and best known of the baths," eventually picking up the nickname "Everhard".

Emlyn Williams described a visit in 1927: Among the documented patrons were Alfred Lunt, Clifton Webb, Noël Coward, Lorenz Hart, Truman Capote, Charles James, Gore Vidal, and Rudolf Nureyev.

[8] On May 25, 1977, nine patrons (ages 17 to 40) were killed in a fire: seven from smoke inhalation, one from respiratory burns, and one who had jumped from an upper floor.

[13] The bathhouse is described in the novels Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Holleran,[14] Faggots by Larry Kramer, and Now Voyagers by James McCourt.