Next up, here's
West End Park in Houston. This was the home to the Houston Buffaloes minor league team from 1905-1927, as well as host to the Cardinals, Browns, and Yankees at various times from 1906-1915. It's pretty close to where downtown Houston is today, though admittedly it may be the present-day sprawl making me think that. There's a historical marker at the site today, and the
application with supporting information is available online (pdf).
Here's the
Google Drive link for the ballpark etc.
I'm not 100% satisfied with how it came out--my modeling bete noire is usually balancing the background/horizon with building models I want to include. Since the view with the church is one of the few contemporary views I found I wanted to include that (though the steeple is wrong), and when I made this I didn't have a great sense of how to grade that into things further out. I stuck the cityscape in since I think it would have been visible. Given infinite spare time I might try and revisit the background, but realistically I think this is what it is! I'll also note for what it's worth that the extended covered grandstand is inspired by the aerial photo below--the picture with the church clearly doesn't have it extended that far down the LF line...