Trenton Bath House Tour

If you're like me, you've never been to Trenton, New Jersey. Well, now you have a good reason to visit: Wednesday, July 28 is a hard-hat tour of Louis I. Kahn's Trenton Bath House, a building I featured previously in a review of Louis I. Kahn's Trenton Jewish Community Center by Susan G. Solomon. Kahn famously said of the small building, "If the world discovered me after I designed the Richards [Medical Research Building], I discovered myself after designing that little concrete block bathhouse in Trenton."


[Click photo for larger image with tour details | photo: Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC]

These landmark buildings, designed by the renowned Modernist architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974) for the Jewish Community Center of the Delaware Valley, opened in 1955. The project was carried out by Princeton, NJ-based architecture firm Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC (FMG) with landscape architecture by Heritage Landscapes. It restores Kahn�s buildings, makes needed improvements, and adds elements in the spirit of Kahn�s design intentions.

Time: 12-6pm

Cost: $50 for the general public, free for members of the press

Sponsored by: Ewing Township, Mercer County, Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC, and DOCOMOMO US New York/Tri-State

For general registration, contact John Arbuckle, rsvp[at]docomomo-nytri[dot]org

For press registration, contact Jocelyne Koach, 646-742-1700, koach[at]hausmanllc[dot]com