Also known as the “Portland Baseball Park” or “Recreation Park”, although this last name never really caught on. The ballpark was on a block bounded by NW Vaughn Street on the south (third base), NW 24th Avenue on the east (first base), and NW 25th Avenue on the west (left to center field), and was served directly by the Twenty-Third streetcar line until 1950.
The park was originally jointly financed by F. I. Fuller of the Portland Railway Company and C. F. Swigert of the City & Suburban Railway Company, hoping to profit from professional baseball, both at the box office and via fares from their streetcar lines.
The first game at the park was scheduled for April 28, 1901 but inclement weather seems to have postponed that until May 22, when Portland’s “Webfooters” took on the Spokane Blues. They emerged victorious 8–6 in a rain-shortened match “on a field more suitable for a frolic of healthy ducks than for playing gilt-edged baseball.” The last games at the stadium were on September 11, 1955 when the Portland Beavers took on Oakland in a double-header.