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Similar to a sauna or steam room, Native Americans used a temescal or sweat house that had spiritual purification purposes as well as physical.
On this approximate location of what is now Montgomery and Sacramento Streets in San Francisco, was once a temescal used by the local people. A simple building with a hole dug about six feet deep for a smoky fire and covered with brush, after getting all sweaty they would jump into pool that was then near by.