143 Wahconah St., Pittsfield, Massachusetts. County/parish: Berkshire.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 12, 2005. NRIS 05000878.
1 contributing building. 4 contributing sites. 4 contributing structures.
Wahconah Park is a city-owned baseball park located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and nestled in a working-class neighborhood. One of the last remaining ballparks in the United States with a wooden grandstand, it was constructed in 1919 and seats 4,500. Through the park's history, 201 different Pittsfield players went on to the Major Leagues, and 100 different Pittsfield players already had some Major League experience. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
In the July 23, 1990, issue of Sports Illustrated, author Daniel Okrent raved about the park in his column entitled Just A Little Bit of Heaven – Pittsfield's Wahconah Park is Baseball as it Oughta Be.
In 2012, the stadium became the home field of the Pittsfield Suns, an expansion franchise of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League. The Suns did not play the 2024 season because of safety issues at Wahconah Park, and will again sit out the 2025 season.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63794270