.:: EAST-WEST STADIUM

East-West Stadium is a Fairmont landmark originally constructed in the late 1920s as a public park/recreation facility including: swimming pool, tennis courts and combined baseball-football stadium.
The stadium walls are stone masonry, a common approach to WPA era construction, encircling one city block. East-West Stadium has played host to outdoor sporting and community events for nearly 70 years.
In 2003 the Marion County Board of Education and superintendent Dr. James Phares—in partnership with the City of Fairmont, the Marion County County Commission and local residents—initiated a three-phase East-West Stadium Renovation Project as a component of the 'Beltline Renovation Plan'.
This phased plan includes the installation (completed in 2004) and payment of synthetic turf (Phase I), stadium renovation (Phase II), and reconstruction of the adjacent 12th Street pool (Phase III). Initial budgeted projections were established at $2,045,000.