Riverside Park

Opened in 1878

About Riverside Park

Riverside Park was an MLB stadium in Buffalo, New York. It opened in 1878 and closed in 1884. Its only tenant was Buffalo Bisons (MLB, 1879–1883). On our ranked lists it ranks 14th shortest-lived of 272 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

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Venue Information

Year Opened

1878

Year Closed

1884

Location

Buffalo, New York

Elevation

630 ft

192 m above sea level

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

Home seasons at Riverside Park by team, 1878–1884. Bars use each team's colors at the time; the table below lists every season.

Team	League	Years
Buffalo Bisons While based here: 5 seasons · 212-212-5 regular season MLB · 1879–1883 Territory map on ImperialismMap Riverside Park 1879–1883 Olympic Park (I) 1884–1885	MLB	1879–1883

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

When was Riverside Park built?

Riverside Park opened in 1878.

Where did the Buffalo Bisons play after Riverside Park?

After leaving Riverside Park in 1883, the Buffalo Bisons moved to Olympic Park (I) in 1884. They played there until 1885.

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): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 49 m of this point).

Location

Coordinates: 42.9067, -78.8928

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Nearby Venues

Venue	Years	Distance
Olympic Park (I)	1884–1889	0.6 mi
Offermann Stadium	1924–1961	1.7 mi
Olympic Park II	1890–	1.7 mi
War Memorial Stadium	1937–1989	1.8 mi
Sahlen Field	1988–	2.0 mi
Demske Sports Complex	1989–	2.1 mi

Straight-line distance between the venues' coordinates.

References

Teams on Wikipedia

Buffalo Bisons

Every source for the facts on this page is listed under Sources.