Built in 1904 in the Romanesque Revival architectural style, the building today serves as office space.

The organization spent the first years of its life providing working-class families with clothing at fair prices.

They soon realized that since several families often lived in single-family homes, that this meant that regular and proper bathing was hard to come by.

Phipps grew up in Allegheny City, now Pittsburgh's North Side, and was a neighbor of Andrew Carnegie.

[6] Nonetheless, he donated the electric generator and other related equipment which allowed the bath house to also operate a laundry facility.

[10] After World War I the number of patrons dropped and by 1928 the bath house had to ask the city council for $2,000 for repairs.