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Excerpt from Bathhouse Row Adaptive Use Program: The Quapaw Bathhouse; Technical Report 6 The partial second story and front porch have pitched roofs covered in red-clay tile, while the rest of the building has a flat roof. That is, the clay-tile roofing covers the first floor porches, and storage rooms, and the second-floor dressing halls and writing room (see figures 4 and On the northwest portion of the first-story roof, the tiles have been removed and replaced by rolled-felt roofing. The dome is decorated with a somewhat-byzantine mosaic design in ceramic tile (figure The dome, topped with an intricate copper lantern or decorative cupola, rests on an octagonal, poured-concrete base containing a ventilator. The upper section of the dome has a five-color undulating-petal pattern of glazed tiles. The middle, and largest, section of the dome has a radiating pattern of square floral tiles superimposed on a two-color chevron pattern of tile. The base section of the dome is a multi-colored band of square tile with alternating diamond and rectangular-shaped tile insets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.