Providence Park, Sports stadium in Portland, United States
Providence Park is an open-air soccer stadium in Goose Hollow, Portland, Oregon, built as an oval bowl around a rectangular grass field. A tall grandstand with rows of blue seats and a roof overhang rises on the left, a lower covered tier stands opposite, and gray metal beams and trusses support the roof above the tiered seating. The playing surface lies well below street level, and the Multnomah Athletic Club building borders the south end.
The Multnomah Athletic Club built the stadium in 1926 for $502,000, naming it Multnomah Civic Stadium. The city bought it in 1966 and renamed it Civic Stadium, then PGE Park in 2001, Jeld-Wen Field in 2011 and Providence Park in 2014.
The club name Timbers recalls Oregon's timber industry. The team and its supporters have made local soccer culture a regular part of city life.
The pitch sits well below street level because the block slopes downhill from south to north, so enter from the surrounding streets and look down onto the field. The MAX light rail stops across the street at the Providence Park station, and Interstate 405, called the Stadium Freeway, runs nearby. The Multnomah Athletic Club building borders the south end.
The site was a large Chinese vegetable garden supplying produce to much of Portland before the Multnomah Athletic Club turned it into sports fields in 1893. The club built its distinctive building beside the south end in 1912, and its north windows look straight down onto the pitch.
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