Lost venues, Before 1900
Venues that were in use before 1900, including nineteenth-century baseball grounds and early racecourses.
46 venues
View on map →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.
Russwood Park
Russwood Park was Memphis's main ballpark on Madison Avenue, home of the Southern Association Chicks. It burned down on Easter night 1960, hours after its last game.
St. Nicholas Arena
St. Nicholas Arena on West 66th Street in Manhattan opened as an ice rink in 1896 and was one of New York's main boxing clubs from 1906 until it closed in 1962. It later became an ABC television studio and was demolished in the 1980s.
Lexington Park
Lexington Park was the St. Paul Saints' home at Lexington and University avenues from 1897 to 1956. A grocery store and later other commercial buildings replaced it.
Celtic Park
Celtic Park in Sunnyside, Queens, was the home grounds of the Irish American Athletic Club from 1898 until 1930, when it was sold for an apartment complex.
Notre Dame Fieldhouse
Notre Dame Fieldhouse was the University of Notre Dame's athletic building and basketball home from 1898 to 1968. It was demolished in 1983.
Ohio Field
Ohio Field was Ohio State University's football field from 1898 to 1921, before Ohio Stadium opened. It was torn down in 1922.
Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway
The Michigan State Fairgrounds Speedway was a one-mile dirt oval in Detroit, built for horse racing in 1899, that hosted AAA and USAC Indy car races and two NASCAR Grand National races. Its grandstand was condemned in 1971 and demolished in 2001.
Northrop Field
Northrop Field was the University of Minnesota's on-campus football field from 1899 to 1923. It hosted the first Little Brown Jug game in 1903.
Tanforan Racetrack
A San Bruno Thoroughbred track that raced from 1899 to 1963, served as a Japanese American assembly center in 1942, and burned in 1964 before the land became The Shops at Tanforan.