John A. Dilliard for Norman Bel Geddes & Company
Perspective drawing of Geddes’s design for a never-built All Weather-All-Purpose Stadium for the Brooklyn Dodgers
1949
Pencil on paper
Summary:
Bel Geddes designed a covered ball park to replace Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Designed between 1948 and 1952, 20 years before Houston’s Astrodome, this completely covered stadium, equipped with a roof that could slide open if weather allowed, was to be the new home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Designed to be the ideal baseball park, but never built, the stadium could be converted for use as a football field or even flooded for boating events.
The report in box 45, folder 577.11 was added to the Geddes papers in October 2012.