Vaughn Street Park

Newspaper drawing of the Park.

The Vaughn Street Park was the home stadium of the Pacific Coast League Portland Beavers. The original stadium was built on the site in 1901, with an expansion built in late 1911, with plans to open for the 1912 season. It was located along Vaughn Street in Portland, Oregon.

Dimensions of the park.

A newspaper of the era says the grandstand was 520 feet long, with the seats at an angle of 20 degrees. The aisles were to be 6 feet wide, also at a 20 degree angle. Seating was purchased in Chicago, IL; it consisted of 6,000 opera seats. The stadium also had between 300 and 400 private boxes with four, five or six seats each, segregated by steel pipe railings. Openings at either end of the stand allowed access to either the left field or right field bleachers. The park was designed to give all fans an unobstructed view of the playing field. The pillars were placed in the aisles and were designed to avoid interfering with the view of spectators. The bleachers in right field were 32 rows high and the centerfield bleachers were 39 rows high. The section from the scoreboard to the leftfield end of the grandstand was 19 rows high. A boardwalk was constructed along the fence, 15 feet above the ground, allowing fans to pass from one point to another.

On top of the grandstand was a 30 foot high screen fence, used to contain foul balls.