title: The Davis Wells; The Davis Baths
date: 1920?
language: English
description: Pictured here is a semi-ornate brick building (with a socle
 presumably of stone), advertising the Davis Wells and the Davis Baths.  This
 enterprise is not listed in A.F. Weaver's "TIME WAS in Mineral
 Wells...."  
     The picture appears to have been excerpted from a larger
 photograph, as the legend "Davis Baths" (not visible in the picture) appears
 on the negative.
     Polk's Directory for 1920 lists "Davis Mineral Baths"
 (proprietor, Dr. Eldred A.--the "A" stands for "Albany"--Davis) at "210 1/2 N.
 Oak Avenue."  The business cannot be found in the 1909 or 1914 Polk's
 Directories.  However, the 1914 Polk's Directory shows a Dr. Davis as living
 at 514 East Throckmorton [presently, in 2014, NE 1st Street] with his wife,
 Helen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The  name of the bath house was changed to the "Buck Head" (or "Buckhead", as some sources have it) at some as yet unknown date.
subject: Architecture
subject: bath houses
subject: mineral baths
coverage: United States - Texas - Palo Pinto County - Mineral Wells
coverage: Into Modern Times, 1939-Present
type: Photograph
format: Image
identifier: local-cont-no: AWO_0575N
identifier: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth60884/
identifier: ark: ark:/67531/metapth60884