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Saunas & men's clubs / Downtown (Grand Circus Park area)

Park Avenue Baths

Closed – archive entry

Historic downtown gay men's bathhouse on Park Avenue near Grand Circus Park; one of five in Detroit in 1979.

01 / The story of this place

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Park Avenue Baths was a gay men's bathhouse on Park Avenue in downtown Detroit, near Grand Circus Park. In 1979 it was one of five bathhouses of its kind operating in the city. It closed by the mid-1980s, when all Detroit bathhouses except TNT had shut down as the AIDS crisis grew. Its exact street number is not confirmed.

  1. Downtown Detroit bathhouse of the 1970s
  2. On Park Avenue near Grand Circus Park
  3. One of five Detroit bathhouses in 1979
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03 / Events

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