Madison Square Park

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Location	New York, Manhattan, NY, United States
Modern Address	11 Madison Ave., NYC
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Description	The 1837 Gothams Club of NYC played at Madison Square, described as at 23rd/24th Streets and 5th/6th Avenues and opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Thompson's Madison Cottage was at the southwest corner. By the 1840s this club played at Elysian Field. The site is still there. It is just north of the Flatiron Building (175 Fifth Avenue).
Sources	Our Game blog at https://ourgame.mlblogs.com/the-lost-ball-club-and-its-lost-home-b25889f1d69b. See also https://protoball.org/Gotham_Club_Rules_(1837)
Comment	In other words, the New York Club’s grounds lay outside today’s Madison Square but within the pre-1844 park; the Parade, as Madison Square was called prior to its formal dedication as a public park in 1847, was originally a twenty-acre tract bounded by Third and Seventh avenues and Twenty-third and Thirty-fourth streets. The “roadside resort” was named the Madison Cottage but was also known as Thompson’s for its proprietor. (Our game blog, Dec. 20, 2021) Edit with form to add a comment
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Found by	John Thorn
Submission Note	Original find by Randall Brown in 2004
Entered by	Bruce Allardice

Clubs

Club	Years	Edit Association with Field
Gothams Club of New York	1837

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