Bellevue Park

Bellevue Park served as the Packers' home field from 1923 to 1924 and was the site of the first Packers-Bears game played in Green Bay. Built in less than three weeks in the spring of 1923 with wood salvaged from the stands at Hagemeister Park, where the Packers had previously played, Bellevue was built for baseball and reconfigured for the Packers later that year. Its capacity was listed at a little more than 3,300, but nearly 4,500 fans squeezed into the park's cramped quarters when the Packers entertained the Chicago Bears on Oct. 14, 1923. At that point, the two teams had played only once before, in Chicago in 1921 when the Bears were still named the Staleys. The Packers lost that first game in Green Bay, 3-0. The rivalry grew into the most storied in the National Football League. The ballpark bordered the street with the field running north and south. At the north end stood a barn decorated with a Bellevue Ice Cream sign, and to the west was the former Hagemeister Brewery bottling house. The Packers played there during Prohibition, when the company went under the name Hagemeister Food Products; later, it was changed again to Bellevue Food Products. Bellevue Park was razed in 1928.

Green Bay, Wisconsin · United States