Notre Dame Fieldhouse

Notre Dame Fieldhouse
Notre Dame Fieldhouse
Location Notre Dame, IN
Coordinates 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′2.16″W / 41.702299000°N 86.2339333°W / 41.702299000; -86.2339333Coordinates: 41°42′8.2764″N 86°14′2.16″W / 41.702299000°N 86.2339333°W / 41.702299000; -86.2339333
Owner University of Notre Dame
Field size 180' x 100'
Construction
Opened 1898
Closed 1968
Demolished 1983

Notre Dame Fieldhouse was a 4,000 seat multi-purpose arena in Notre Dame, Indiana. It opened in 1898.[1]

It was home to the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish basketball team. It was replaced when the Edmund P. Joyce Center opened in 1968. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a special University convocation on December 9, 1935.

References

  1. Connelly & Dooley; Joel R. Connelly; Howard J. Dooley (1972). Hesburgh's Notre Dame: triumph in transition. University of Michigan: Hawthorne Books. p. 83.
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