ABSTRACT
Cleanliness is a thread common to both reform and recreation, each of which generated its characteristic building types. Those for the latter, the subject of this chapter, had to be places where a self-selected group could unite to share leisure and pleasure. The activity had to be visibly, even ostentatiously, the group’s, not the private ostentation of, say, a dandy in a street or even of a landed family in its country seat. It could be eating and drinking; playing games; gambling for large sums; sports and collaborative pastimes; washing and bathing; dancing; taking part in musical and dramatic performances; or taking holidays. Sometimes it needed a temporary luxurious residence.
