James Lick Baths

The James Lick Baths (also known as the People's Laundry Building and 165 Tenth Street) in the South of Market District of San Francisco, California is a San Francisco Designated Landmark combining aspects of public bathing and self-service laundry.

Built in 1890 by the James Lick estate as a free public bath house, it housed a men’s bath with forty bathtubs in changing rooms in the large north wing, and a women’s bath with twenty tubs in changing rooms in the smaller south wing.

Bathers could open the taps at each tub in the bathing halls for a customized mix of hot and cold water.

After extensive damage in the 1906 earthquake and fire the building was repaired and continued as a bath until 1919.

In 2008 Gelfand Partners Architects acquired the building and renovated the ground floor to be its office.