Washington Park

Washington Park 1911

"Washington Park was the name given to three major league Baseball parks on two different sites in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, located at 3rd St. and 4th Ave. The first two sites were diagonally opposite each other at that intersection. The third site was the same as the second site. ... The second Washington Park was bounded by 1st and 3rd Streets, and 3rd and 4th Avenues. It was located at 40°40′30″N 73°59′10″W. The park sat 18,800. It consisted of a covered grandstand behind the infield and uncovered stand down the right field line. The Brooklyn National Leaguers, by then often called the 'Superbas' as well as the 'Dodgers', moved into this new ballpark in 1898, where they would play for the next 15 seasons. On April 30, 1898, the Dodgers played their first game at new Washington Park and 15,000 fans attended. One of the more unusual features of the Park was the aroma from nearby factories and Gowanus Canal, which was a block away and curled around two sides of the ballpark. [Washington Park #2] Meanwhile, owner Charlie Ebbets slowly invested in the individual lots on a larger piece of property in Flatbush, which would become the site of Ebbets Field once he had the entire block. So in 1913, the Dodgers, at that time most often called the 'Robins' for their manager Wilbert Robinson, abandoned Washington Park."
Wikipedia

Washington Park

"Until October, 2010, along Third Avenue in Brooklyn, between First and Third Streets, and a little way along each street too, stood a very old brick wall. Just a third of the wall now remains, serving as the edge of a Con Edison storage yard, but this wall was once part of Washington Park. The question we want to answer is: which Washington Park? Is it part of the pre-Ebbets Field Dodger version, or was the wall erected in its entirety by the Tip Tops in 1914? The conventional wisdom is that the wall dates from perhaps 1899, a year after the Dodgers built the wooden Washington Park at this site, when they added a carriage house. As Barry Petchesky wrote in the New York Times in 2007: It is believed to be the oldest standing piece of a major league ballpark in the country. Certainly the original sketchy plan, from the Brooklyn Eagle in 1898, supports the idea of a carriage house along Third Avenue from the First Street corner."
The Washington Park Wall

Washington Park II, circa 1910

Stoic Link to Baseball History Stands Guard
"Once upon a time in Brooklyn, they used to play baseball here. Tucked away among ancient factories and garages is a massive relic of the Dodgers’ old ballpark. Not Ebbets Field, but Washington Park, where Brooklyn played before moving to Flatbush. It is believed to be the oldest standing piece of a major league ballpark in the country. And almost nobody knows it is there. At the foot of Park Slope, a block from the Gowanus Canal, is a Con Edison truck depot and storage facility bounded by First and Third Streets and Third and Fourth Avenues. Running the length of Third Avenue is a 20-foot-high stone wall that makes up part of a loading dock. The high, small windows of the wall have been bricked up. From 1898 to 1912, Washington Park was the home of the team alternately nicknamed the Bridegrooms, Superbas and Trolley Dodgers."
NY Times

4th Ave and 1st Street

Brooklyn wall loses Dodger pedigree, gains Wrigley connection
"After all the hoohah over the last surviving remnant of the Brooklyn Dodgers' home before Ebbets Field, it turns out that the wall in question isn't actually so much a Dodgers wall after all. 'I can say with absolute certainty that this wall was not part of Washington Park prior to the Brooklyn team's departure [in 1912],' historian and Brooklynpix proprietor Brian Merlis declares in today Daily News. 'It's still an historic wall, but there's no evidence ... that it's the original wall.' This will come as no surprise to readers of the BrooklynBallparks.com site (run by my Field of Schemes colleague David Dyte), which for years now has been quietly laying out evidence that the windowed brick wall running along Third Avenue between 1st and 3rd Streets in Gowanus was built in 1914, after the Dodgers' departure, when Washington Park was reconstructed to play host to the Brooklyn Tip-Tops of the Federal League."
Village Voice