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Originally Posted by Cod
This is awesome stuff! Thanks for letting us join the ride. How are you discovering the build plans for these stadiums?
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I've been kicking around writing a blog post about it, but in short the Library of Congress has a large set of fire insurance maps digitized, most of the cities we're talking about here are large enough to have had atlases published (and the 19th century is long enough ago that they're in the public domain), and there are enough fans of these MLB teams that a lot of the random research appears on fan pages (and places like Digital Ballparks or the Green Cathedrals book).
For the slightly later, minor league parks in my other thread I've been able to take advantage of some of these factors, but also lean on 1930s-1940s aerial photos from the National Archives and the USGS, and contemporary city directories and newspapers.
It also helps that I'm a research scientist for my day job, so I have a lot of experience doing research!