sutrobaths.com

(Looking for the official National Park Service and Wikipedia pages?)In 1997, I moved to San Francisco and immediately fell in love with the wildness and modern ruins of the late-1800s Sutro Baths bathhouse. It became my holy place and I started documenting it. I also collected artifacts from it, like historical flyers I found on eBay. And when I visited the ruins, I would end up giving strangers unofficial tours of it. In 2000, I bought sutrobaths.com.Most of my photos are from 1997-2003 — I have hundreds. Something I didn't realize at the time was that these ruins were not frozen in time and would continue to evolve, fall apart.I have photos of every rusty pipe sticking out of the ground, cement structures before graffiti, and wooden platforms and stairs that no longer exist. I sat on ledges that have long since washed out to sea.In 2025, Sutro Baths looks very different than the images on this page.Over the years, I've received many emails from people who thought (an earlier version of) this was the official site.