This majestic looking ballpark with its 22 hand-carved Corinthian columns was home to the Reds for only ten years, mostly because as beautiful as she looked, she was not built to be sturdy and cracks racked the girders, decayed supports and unsafe floors and a fire that damaged most of it led to her demise. The Roman and Greek styled ballpark was also considered too small, even for its day. It’s capacity was just 6,000 when most ballparks at least doubled that.
By 1912 the Reds would build a new ballpark named Redland Field over the old site, and would eventually be renamed Crosley Field in 1934. This new ballpark held more than 20,000 rooters and would become a Cincinnati icon over almost the next 60 years.