Features of Fenway
1928
In 1926, three fires burned down Fenway Park's left-field wooden bleachers and left a void down the left-field line. The neighborhood around the ballpark was starting to commercialize and shortly after Fenway opened the Smith building and Fenway Garage did as well.
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1928 map showing Fenway Park from the Bromley Atlas (Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library)