- City:
- Eugene, OR
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Colleges and Universities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1938
- Artist:
- Orion B. Dawson
- Designers:
- Fred Cuthbert, Orion B. Dawson
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1935 when a baseball park was constructed near McArthur Court, plans got under way to create formal gates and entrances. The park was named Howe Field for Herbert Crombie Howe, an English professor and athletics supporter. Early on, Fred Cuthbert, UO’s landscape architect, and Orion B. Dawson, blacksmith, were involved in the designs. Dawson was concurrently working on iron projects at Timberline Lodge. Funding for the project came from the Works Projects Administration, several UO classes, the Soldiers’ Memorial Fund, and the Associated Students of the University of Oregon. The gates, sometimes known as the Soldiers’ Memorial Gates, also served the long-sought goal of honoring World War I veterans. A bronze plaque (below) honoring WWI veterans is mounted on the ticket booth.
The gates serve as an entry point to Jane Sanders Stadium on University Avenue.
Source notes
https://library.uoregon.edu/architecture/oregon/howefield.html
Site originally submitted by Douglass Halvorsen on December 12, 2015.
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Bill Clingman
Evan Kalish
Icon on map is about a mile south of actual gates at Howe Field, which is just north of 18th.
Thanks! I’ve resolved the coordinates.