 Aerial shot of Breese Stevens Field (c.2019) | |
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| Address | 917 E Mifflin St Madison, WI 53703-2831 |
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| Location | Tenney-Lapham |
| Coordinates | 43°04′59″N 89°22′23″W / 43.08306°N 89.37306°W |
| Public transit |  Metro Transit |
| Owner | City of Madison Parks Division |
| Operator | Big Top Sports & Entertainment |
| Capacity | 5,000 |
| Construction | |
| Opened | May 5, 1926 |
| Renovated |
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| Architect | Claude & Starck |
| Tenants | |
| Madison Blues (WIL/WSL/TSL/IIIL) (1926-42) Madison Muskies (MWL) (1982-83) Edgewood College Eagles (NCAA) (1990-2019) Madison 56ers (UPSL) (2005–present) Madison Radicals (AUDL) (2013–present) Madison East High School (WIAA) (2015–present) Forward Madison FC (USL1) (2019–present) Madison Women's Pro Soccer (USLS) (2025–future) | |
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| Venue website | |
Breese Stevens Municipal Athletic Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. Located eight blocks northeast of the Wisconsin State Capitol on the Madison Isthmus, it is the oldest extant masonry grandstand in Wisconsin.[1]
The field is named in honor of Breese J. Stevens (1834–1903), a mayor of Madison and a University of Wisconsin–Madison regent, on the wishes of his widow, who sold the land to the city. The complex was designated as a Madison Landmark in 1995 and was accepted for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The venue currently seats nearly 5,000, which can be expanded to 9,333 for concerts.
It is home to Edgewood College teams; Madison East High School teams, the Madison 56ers amateur soccer team; the semi-professional Ultimate frisbee team, the Madison Radicals, and the USL League One soccer team Forward Madison FC. It has hosted Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association's girls' soccer tournaments and an exhibition match of Australian football. The field has also hosted ice skating, boxing, wrestling, lacrosse, track and field, midget car racing, rodeos, circuses, drum and bugle corps competitions, concerts, and fraternal and religious gatherings.
- ^ Engle, Jeanne (May 2018). "Breese Stevens Field". MadisonEssentials.com. Madison Essentials. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
...its also the oldest surviving masonry grandstand in Wisconsin.