Another building owned by the St. Paul Hebrew Institute was at 133 E. Fillmore.
There were four apartments in the building, but there is no information about the tenants. They may have been used for the people who came to use the large bath area.
In the 1960 Riverview Industrial Project surveys the assessor described the area in the basement of the building.
In his words, it was a "ritual Hebrew bath. There is an entry and reception room in front and an emersion room with extensive shower and bath facilities and sunken ceramic tile emersion pool. In connection with this bath, there are 2 concrete water storage tanks and a separate boiler for heating the pool water."
]]>In 1888 Rabbi Herman Simon became rabbi of the West Side Congregations and proceeded to lead the effort to establish a Hebrew Institute on the West Side.
The St. Paul Hebrew Institute and Sheltering Home was completed and dedicated in 1911 at 297 Kentucky St. This Institute served as the Lower West Side's Talmud Torah, and its major function was the education of children. Neither the building nor the street still exist.
The Sheltering Home housed and fed many of the new immigrants when they first arrived on the Lower West Side address; in 1938 the Institute was still listed at 295 Kentucky.
The Institute remained in use until some time in 1958.
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