Ballplayers House

The Ballplayers House or Ballfields Café is a 450-square-foot (42 m2) building in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, designed by the architecture firm Buttrick White & Burtis.

Completed in 1990,[1] it replaced an older building, architect Calvert Vaux's Boys Play House of 1868, which stood on the northern edge of the Heckscher Ballfields until it was demolished in 1969.

An encaustic tile frieze with a simple flower motif and a zig-zag pattern, symbolizes a ball bouncing across a baseball field.

[4] In lieu of Vaux's bracketed eaves, pointed pinnacles and chamfered chimney, the new building boasts a simple roofline, topped with a sleek, factory-made, metal cresting.

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, president of the Central Park Conservancy when the Ballplayers House was built, described its design as "a contemporary interpretation of Vaux's style.