The second Carnegie Baths, Dunfermline, Scotland
When it became clear that Carnegie's gift of the Schoolend Road baths had become so popular with the people of Dunfermline that they were too small, Carnegie gave a further £45,000 for a second set of baths and a gymnasium—a Christmas present to the town.
These baths, in nearby Pilmuir Street, were designed by French-born Edinburgh architect Hippolyte Jean Blanc (1844–1917) and opened on 31 March 1905. Both buildings included Turkish baths.
This page adds an image to illustrate
Carnegie's Pilmuir Street Baths in Dunfermline,
mentioned on page 160 of my book
Victorian Turkish Baths
VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS
by Malcolm Shifrin
Published
2015
by Historic England
in partnership with Liverpool University Press
Distributed in the US by Oxford University Press
ISBN: 978-1-84802-230-0
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