Flamingo Park Grandstands (demolished) - Miami Beach FL

City:: Miami Beach, FL
Site Type:: Parks and Recreation, Stadiums
New Deal Agencies:: Work Relief Programs, Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Started:: 1935
Quality of Information:: Moderate
Site Survival:: No Longer Extant

Description

Flamingo Park, also known as Flamingo Field, was a ballpark built in 1925. In 1935, new grandstands were built by FERA. The ballpark served a number of professional baseball teams for many years, but eventually became rundown, and was replaced by a new ballpark on the same site in 1967.

Source notes

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/144428 Rose, Chanelle Nyree. 2015. The Struggle for Black Freedom in Miami: Civil Rights and America’s Tourist Paradise, 1896-1968. LSU Press.