page_title: Herald Park
section_title: Planning and construction
hierarchical_section_title: Herald Park / History / Planning and construction
caption_attribution_description: English: A Texas Historical Marker at the location of Herald Park commemorating the ballpark.
context_page_description: Herald Park was a baseball park located in Houston, Texas and was the home of the Houston Buffaloes from 1888 until 1904. It also served as the spring training facility for the Louisville Colonels and the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League of Major League Baseball in 1895 and 1904 respectively.
  The ballpark existed near the Houston fairgrounds at the intersection of Travis Street and McGowen Street on the eastern edge of Fourth Ward. Today, Houston's Reef restaurant sat on the location of Herald Park until it closed in 2019. In 2016, the Texas Historical Commission commemorated the ballpark by placing a historical marker on the location.
context_section_description: On July 2, 1884, a meeting was held in the office J. W. Mitchell that decided to issue 120 shares of stock at $10 each for the purpose of preparing a baseball park.  Mitchell, along with W. H. Coyle and Colonel Will Childress headed a committee to sell such shares.  Built in a largely unpopulated area of prairie land, on the grounds of the State Fair of Texas, fences and a grandstand were erected on the site by 1885.
caption: Texas State Historical Marker for the ballpark
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