Lost venues, 1900–1949
The era of steel-and-concrete ballparks, early arenas, board-track motor racing and grand racetrack grandstands.
218 venues
View on map →Kentucky Association Race Track
The Kentucky Association track in Lexington was one of America's oldest racecourses, operating from about 1828 until 1933. Its gates were later replicated at Keeneland.
Bel Air Race Track
Bel Air Race Track was a Thoroughbred track in Bel Air, Maryland, dating from the 1870s and closed around 1960-1962. The Harford Mall now covers the site.
South End Grounds
The South End Grounds was the home of Boston's National Association and National League club from 1871 until August 1914. Northeastern University buildings and a garage now cover the site.
Latonia Race Track
Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky, was one of the country's leading Thoroughbred tracks from 1883 to 1939. It was razed in 1941, and a shopping center now covers most of the site.
Sulphur Dell
Sulphur Dell was Nashville's main ballpark from 1885 to 1963, known for its steep right-field slope. It was razed in 1969, and the Sounds' First Horizon Park now stands on the site.
Gravesend Race Track
Gravesend Race Track was the Brooklyn Jockey Club's Thoroughbred track from 1886 until anti-betting laws stopped New York racing around 1910. It hosted the Preakness Stakes for more than a decade.
Baker Bowl
Baker Bowl was the Phillies' home at Broad and Lehigh from 1887 to mid-1938. Its tiny right field and steep wall made it a hitter's park; it was gone by 1950.
Borchert Field
Borchert Field, opened in 1888 as Athletic Park, was the cramped north-side Milwaukee ballpark that housed the minor-league Brewers for half a century before County Stadium.
Morris Park Racecourse
Morris Park Racecourse in the Bronx hosted the Belmont Stakes from 1890 to 1904. After racing ended it became an early aviation field and then the Morris Park neighborhood.
Benning Race Track
Benning Race Track was Washington, D.C.'s Thoroughbred track from 1890 until Congress banned racing in the District in 1908. The Mayfair Mansions apartments now stand on the site.
Exposition Park (Pittsburgh)
Exposition Park on Pittsburgh's North Shore was the Pirates' home from 1891 to mid-1909 and hosted the first modern World Series in 1903. The site is now mostly parking.
Madison Square Garden (1890)
The second Madison Square Garden, designed by Stanford White, stood at Madison Avenue and 26th Street in Manhattan from 1890 to 1926. It hosted prizefights, six-day bicycle races and the first Millrose Games.
Boundary Field (National Park)
Boundary Field was a wooden ballpark at Georgia and Florida Avenues in Washington that hosted the Senators in the 1890s and again from 1904 to 1910, until fire destroyed its stands in March 1911.
League Park
League Park, at East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue, was Cleveland's major league ballpark from 1891 and the Indians' main home until 1946. Part of it survives in a city park that reopened in 2014.
Edgerton Park Arena
Edgerton Park Arena in Rochester, a former drill hall, was home to the Rochester Royals from 1945 to 1955, including their 1951 NBA championship season. It was demolished after 1957.
Robison Field
Robison Field was the St. Louis National League club's home on the city's north side from 1893 to mid-1920. A high school was later built on the site.
Stagg Field
Stagg Field was the University of Chicago's football stadium from 1893, when it opened as Marshall Field, until the school dropped football after 1939. The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction took place beneath its west stands in 1942.
West Side Grounds
West Side Grounds was the Cubs' home from 1893 through 1915, the years of their 1907 and 1908 World Series titles. The University of Illinois medical campus now covers the site.
Denny Field (Washington)
Denny Field was the University of Washington's football field from 1895 until November 1920, when the team moved to the new Husky Stadium.
Ingleside Racetrack
Ingleside Racetrack was a San Francisco Thoroughbred track from 1895 to 1906. Its oval survives as Urbano Drive in the Ingleside Terraces neighborhood.
Lloyd Street Grounds
Lloyd Street Grounds was the Milwaukee Brewers' park, including their single American League season in 1901, before the club became the St. Louis Browns. It was torn down in 1904 and the land became housing.
Bennett Park
Bennett Park was the Detroit Tigers' ballpark at Michigan and Trumbull from 1896 to 1911, where Ty Cobb's Tigers won three pennants before it was replaced by Navin Field on the same corner.
Hagemeister Park
Hagemeister Park in Green Bay was the Green Bay Packers' first home field, used from their founding in 1919 through the 1922 season. East High School was built on the site beginning in 1923.
Nicollet Park
Nicollet Park was the Minneapolis Millers' ballpark at Nicollet Avenue and 31st Street from 1896 to 1955. It was torn down soon after its last season and the land became a bank branch site.