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 →Ponce de Leon Park
Ponce de Leon Park was Atlanta's principal ballpark for nearly six decades, home of the minor-league Crackers and the Negro league Black Crackers, remembered for a magnolia tree in play in deep center field.
Riddick Stadium
Riddick Stadium was NC State's football stadium from 1907 to 1965. It was demolished in stages between 1968 and 2013, and SAS Hall now occupies the site.
Denver Auditorium Arena
The Denver Auditorium Arena hosted the 1908 Democratic National Convention and was home of Denver's NBA and ABA basketball teams. The arena portion was demolished in 1990.
Shibe Park
Shibe Park, renamed Connie Mack Stadium in 1953, was Philadelphia's major league ballpark from 1909 to 1970. It was the Athletics' home and later the Phillies'. A church now occupies the site.
Sportsman's Park
Sportsman's Park stood at Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street. Rebuilt in steel and concrete in 1909, it was home to both St. Louis major league teams for decades until 1966. The land became a Boys Club athletic field.
Boston Arena (Matthews Arena)
Boston Arena, renamed Matthews Arena in 1982, opened in 1910 and was the first home of the Boston Bruins and an early home of the Celtics. Northeastern University closed it in December 2025 and began taking it down in 2026.
Comiskey Park
Comiskey Park was the Chicago White Sox's South Side home from 1910 to 1990. It hosted the first All-Star Game and was replaced by a new park built across 35th Street.
Gordon and Koppel Field
Gordon and Koppel Field in Kansas City was home to the Federal League's Packers in 1914-15. It closed in 1917, and the site is now parkland and businesses.
Los Angeles Motordrome
The Los Angeles Motordrome in Playa del Rey was a one-mile board track that opened in April 1910 and was abandoned after a 1913 fire. Automobile and motorcycle speed records were set there.
Nazareth Speedway
A Lehigh Valley racing site, associated with the Andretti family, whose paved one-mile oval hosted CART, IRL and NASCAR Busch racing from 1987 until International Speedway Corporation closed it in 2004.
Griffith Stadium
Griffith Stadium was Washington's major league ballpark from 1911 to 1961. It stood on the site of an earlier park near Howard University and was replaced by Howard University Hospital.
Polo Grounds
This was the fourth ballpark to carry the Polo Grounds name. It was rebuilt in concrete and steel on Coogan's Hollow after a 1911 fire and served baseball and football until 1963, then came down in 1964 for public housing.
Crosley Field
Crosley Field, first called Redland Field, was the Cincinnati Reds' ballpark in the city's West End from 1912 to mid-1970. It hosted the first night game in the major leagues.
Havre de Grace Racetrack
Havre de Grace Racetrack in northeastern Maryland hosted Thoroughbred racing from 1912 to 1950. The Maryland National Guard now uses the site and some old buildings.
Tacoma Speedway
Tacoma Speedway was a dirt and later board racetrack in present-day Lakewood, Washington, that drew top AAA drivers from 1912 to 1922. Its grounds became an airport and later Clover Park Technical College.
Tiger Stadium
Tiger Stadium stood at Michigan and Trumbull in Detroit and was the Tigers' home from 1912 to 1999. It was demolished in 2008–09, and its preserved field reopened as a youth ballpark in 2018.
Broadway Auditorium
Buffalo's Broadway Auditorium, a converted armory, was the city's main boxing and six-day bicycle racing venue from 1913 until its final event in June 1940. The building still stands and is owned by the city.
Ebbets Field
Ebbets Field was the Brooklyn Dodgers' home in Flatbush from 1913 through 1957. It was razed in 1960 and replaced by an apartment complex.
Bowie Race Track
Bowie Race Track in Prince George's County, Maryland, raced Thoroughbreds from 1914 to 1985 and pioneered winter racing in the 1950s. The grounds were later used as a training center.
Broadway Arena
The Broadway Arena on Halsey Street in Brooklyn staged boxing from 1914 to 1951 and wrestling until 1952. The building became a warehouse and supermarket, and housing now occupies the site.
Federal League Park (Buffalo)
Buffalo's Federal League Park was built in spring 1914 on the old International Fair grounds for the Buffalo Buffeds and Blues, who played there in 1914 and 1915.
Federal League Park (Indianapolis)
Federal League Park on Kentucky Avenue was home to the 1914 Indianapolis Hoosiers of the Federal League and then the Indianapolis ABCs before it was cleared for a rail yard in 1917.
Hilldale Park
Hilldale Park on the Darby-Yeadon line was the home of the Hilldale Club, the 1925 Negro league world champions, from 1914 to 1932. Stores and parking lots now cover the site.
New Haven Arena
New Haven Arena on Grove Street was the city's hockey arena from 1914, rebuilt in 1927 after a fire, until the New Haven Coliseum opened in 1972. It was demolished in 1974.