Messer Street Grounds

About Messer Street Grounds

Messer Street Grounds was an MLB stadium in Providence, Rhode Island. It opened in 1878 and closed in 1887. Its last recorded capacity was 6,000. Its only tenant was Providence Grays (MLB, 1878–1885). On our ranked lists it ranks 27th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 27th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 18th shortest-lived of 82 MLB stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 88th longest single tenancy (7 years) of the 100 longest on record in MLB stadiums

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

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Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Capacity, Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 92 m of this point).
• Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA): Photograph.