Design Swimming Pool House

Swimming pools, at least man made watering holes for bathing and swimming go back at least as far as 2600 B.C.E. The first elaborate construction are probably The Great Baths of Mohenjodaro, an ancient and elaborate bathing site in Pakistan made from bricks and covered in plaster, with terraced decks that wouldn’t look out of place in a modern pool landscape. Mohenjodaro probably was not used for general lap swimming, however.

The first swimming pool was a public pool built in 1887 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Pools such as this were great places to socialize, and they provided a way to escape the summer heat before the invention of air conditioning. One of the first residential pools built was on the Vanderbilt estate in Asheville, North Carolina in 1895. Other wealthy families followed suit, with the Edisons being constructed in 1910.

One of the first in-ground swimming pools in the United States is the oldest pool in Texas Deep Eddy Pool in Austin. Deep Eddy has a bathhouse built during the Depression era, by the Works Progress Administration. The pool began as a swimming hole in the Colorado River, became a resort in the 1920s, and is today a popular swimming pool operated by the City of Austin.