The architect who designed Fenway Park was James McLaughlin and the construction was done by Charles Logue Building Company at the cost of $650,000. On January 5, 1934, a major fire destroyed much of Fenway Park. Osborn Engineering & Coleman Brothers, Inc. were brought in to fix the park ($1,575,000 worth of repairs) and the wooden grandstands were replaced with steel & concrete grandstands. The seats were and still are made of solid oak.

Did you know that the RED seat in the right field bleachers at Fenway Park marks the spot where longest home run ever hit inside Fenway Park landed? On June 9, 1946, Ted Williams hit a 502 foot home run off Fred Hutchinson of the Detroit Tigers. Sitting in Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21 was Joe Boucher — a 56-year old construction worker from Albany, New York. The ball hit Boucher on the head dislocating his straw hat and causing him to tell the media, "after it hit my head I was no longer interested (in obtaining the souvenir)."

Fenway Park unusual facts: 1. In 1974 Willie Horton once hit a foul ball that killed a pigeon in flight. 2. While many ballplayers have cleared "the green monster," not one has ever hit a ball over the right-field roof. 3. The foul ball safety screen behind home plate was the first ever in Major League history. 4. The ladder built on the green monster is thirteen feet above the field and designed to allow the groundskeeper a method to retrieve balls hit into the netting (which was removed in 2003 as seats were placed where the net once stood). The ladder still remains and if hit, is the only ground rule triple in all of Major League Baseball. 5. The manual scoreboard in left field was installed in 1934, slightly moved (twenty feet to the right) in 1976, has 16" x 16" alpha / numeric signs that weigh three pounds each & 16x12 signs that weigh two pounds each, and on the back of the scoreboard are autographs from the ballplayers who appeared in left field.