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Originally Posted by asrivkin
Hi all!
I'm back from work travel and started poking at this today. I'm including a screenshot so you can see where this is (currently) heading. I made a rookie mistake and didn't check the thread today before starting, so missed the Cam Miller illustration, though what I've got so far maybe isn't so terribly far off as all that? I think I've made the Grand Duchess grander than the artists' depictions, I could try and scale it down if we think it's important.
I don't think the foul pole distance sets the size of the field in this period-- this site, which I've leaned on a lot in my 19th-century efforts, notes that "The Foul Ball Posts were moved to the limits of the ground starting with the 1874 season". There's a quote somewhere (in the Wikipedia page?) that quotes the acreage of the site, which works out to 590 feet on a side if square. I agree that we're going to have to go with educated guesses here for the grandstand and field size... |
The scale of the Grand Duchess looks really good as far as I can tell - looks pretty close to the illustrations, at a glance. If I had to nitpick, I'd say the Grand Duchess and the "bleachers" on each side of it were flush with the fencing behind them. Otherwise, it looks absolutely fantastic.
I've since learned that the plot was indeed 550ft by 550ft as it sat between hopkins and kenner. As far as the east and west bounding streets, there weren't any there at the time. A tree line separated it from Lincoln Park on the East and it was just open grass all the way to Mill Creek on the West. Dalton wasn't there at the time but would have ran right through the middle of the park as it now sits about halfway between the East and West ends of the park.