{"nrhp_refnum":"79001808","name":"League Park","other_names":["League Park Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Lexington and 66th Sts","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.511834934000035,"lon":-81.64406766399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-08-08","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"League Park Center is the surviving office building and a 100-foot segment of lower-tier concrete stands from League Park, a professional baseball stadium at Lexington Avenue and East 66th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. The office building dates to 1908.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the remnants hold a significant place in Cleveland and national major league baseball history. League Park was the home field of Cleveland's professional team from 1891 to 1946, and the office building housed the club's offices from 1908 until the late 1940s. It is the last remaining part of a large double-tiered ballpark where baseball greats played, including the 1920 World Series.","narrative":"Only fragments remain of League Park, the Cleveland ballfield where the city's professional team played from 1891 to 1946. The surviving pieces are a two-story concrete and brick office building at Lexington Avenue and East 66th Street, built in 1908 to a design by architect Charles S. Schneider, and a 100-foot section of reinforced concrete lower-tier stands. The offices once held the Cleveland Baseball Company's executives, with ticket windows on the ground floor. The park began as a wooden grandstand built by streetcar owner Frank Robison and was rebuilt as a double-tiered steel and concrete stadium in 1909. It hosted players such as Cy Young, Napoleon Lajoie, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker, as well as the 1920 World Series won by Cleveland. After operations moved to Cleveland Stadium in 1946, most of the park was demolished. The office building now serves as a neighborhood center, and the grounds contain small diamonds and a swimming area.","period_of_significance":"1908-1946","architect_builder":"Charles S. Schneider","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"The office building is used as a neighborhood center, the site holds small ball diamonds and a swimming area, and the locker and shower rooms under the stands are vacant and vandalized.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:11.874845-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/79001808.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001808/3c170cdd8d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79001808/3c170cdd8d-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leagueaerial.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leagueaerial.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987945","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q870897"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/league-park-79001808/"}