900 Beach Street

Works Progress Administration crews deposited 20,000 cubic yards of fill here and built the stone seawall, the bathhouse, the beach, two boathouses and retaining walls, paving 101,000 square feet of concrete promenade.

The Aquatic Park Bathhouse holds one of the city's densest concentrations of Federal Art Project work: Hilaire Hiler's Prismatarium and his Lost Continents of Atlantis and Mu, Sargent Johnson's incised slate marquee, ceramic lintel and tile sea forms, Richard Ayer's Nautical Abstractions and Tugboats, Charles Nunemaker's Sepia Seascape and Beniamino Bufano's granite Frog and Seal of 1942.

Sargent Johnson's slate frieze is here, along with the tile mosaic on the second-storey veranda that he left unfinished in 1939 when he walked away from the project. The building is part of the Aquatic Park National Historic Landmark District.

Recommended for city landmark designation in 2023, on historical, aesthetic and artistic grounds.