Venable Park

Venable Park is a former city park located in Baltimore's Waverly section.

In 1922 the city built Venable Stadium on the site of the former park.[1] It gradually became known as Baltimore Municipal Stadium, or more commonly Municipal Stadium. Between 1949 and 1950 the stadium was disassembled/razed and replaced simultaneously on the same structural footprint by Baltimore's better known Memorial Stadium. Games continued to be regularly played in the venue during this period and aerial photos from the era reveal one venue gradually disappearing while another rises.

After Memorial Stadium was razed in 2002, an apartment complex and playing field were built on the site. Some maps began to, after roughly an 80+ year absence, label a small grassy area adjacent to the apartments as Venable Park.

The novel Venable Park was released in 2010[2] and was re-released in April 2015 by Loyola University Maryland's Apprentice House.[3] The novel is set in 1924 in two primary locales, Venable Stadium and the former company steel town of Sparrows Point, Maryland.

References

  1. ↑ Baltimore Municipal Journal, March, 1922
  2. ↑ "VENABLE PARK by Tom Flynn". Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Media LLC. June 20, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Venable Park". apprenticehouse.com.

Coordinates: 39°19′46″N 76°36′5″W / 39.32944°N 76.60139°W / 39.32944; -76.60139

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