{"nrhp_refnum":"95001050","name":"Hicks Field","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Freemason and Woodard Sts., NE corner","address_restricted":false,"city":"Edenton","county":"Chowan County","state":"NC","lat":36.065067965000026,"lon":-76.60527091599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-09-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Entertainment/Recreation"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Hicks Field is a small baseball field district of about three and a half acres at the northeast corner of East Freemason and Woodard Streets in Edenton, Chowan County, North Carolina. Its main parts date from 1939-1940, with dugouts added in 1947.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the field is significant under entertainment/recreation for its long use as a local baseball venue and as a spring training site for minor league teams from the north beginning in 1940. Teams from Reading, Pocomoke City, Lancaster and Binghamton trained there, and exhibition games drew notable players. The facility was built with Works Progress Administration involvement.","narrative":"Hicks Field is a baseball park on about three and a half acres at East Freemason and Woodard Streets in Edenton, North Carolina, beside John A. Holmes High School. Six contributing and three noncontributing resources make up the district. The core was built in 1939-1940: a wooden grandstand seating about 530 under a metal roof carried by laminated columns and trusses, the diamond, an eight-foot wooden outfield fence, and a frame field house. Two poured-concrete dugouts were added in 1947. Lights, a refreshment stand and a scoreboard are later additions. The field was listed for its role in recreation and entertainment between 1939 and 1952. Beginning in 1940, minor league clubs from Reading, Pocomoke City, Lancaster and Binghamton held spring training here, and exhibition games drew attention from the local press and large crowds. The field also served local and regional teams and the high school, and it still hosts baseball today.","period_of_significance":"1939 - 1952","architect_builder":"Works Progress Administration","architectural_style":"No style (diamond and fields); other: columns and truss (grandstand); functional (fieldhouse and dugouts)","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Grandstand upper sections were found structurally deficient in 1994, and a temporary fence confined fans to the front rows until restoration. The field remains in use for baseball, including high school games.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:57:50.895406-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/33/7196/47719633/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/95001050.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719633","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Hicks_Field","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5773515"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/chowan-county/hicks-field-95001050/"}