After the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, ending World War I, Fulda's young men returned home and the community chose to honor them with a memorial their families could enjoy. Led by the Fulda Reading Club, the community decided to build a bathhouse on First Lake, and in 1920 it elected to construct the bathhouse with a bandstand on the top floor. The facility opened for the 1921 summer season, and the next year electric lights for night swimming and a summer toboggan slide were added. In 1929 a floating platform for diving and resting completed the project. Bands from the city of Fulda, St. Paul's church Walther League, and Immanuel church, Pfingsten, performed summer concerts on the bandstand, while families gathered on the grassy slope for music, socializing, and water activities. Over time, however, use declined and the building fell into disrepair; the dressing room wings were removed in 1944, the remaining structure was moved a short distance east, it was then used principally for storage, and it was ultimately razed in 1981.