Yankee Stadium Facade Canvas Print

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One of the most distinguishing characteristics of Yankee Stadium is the "facade", a white frieze that runs along the bleacher billboards and scoreboard.
The facade was an addition made by Osborn Engineering, when the owners of the Yankees asked that the stadium be given "an air of dignity."
So the Osborn Engineering Company erected what was known originally as a frieze. Somewhere along the way it took on the term of facade, and most people know it today as the facade.", according to Yankee Stadium tour guide Tony Morante.
It originally ran around the roof of the grandstand's upper deck. This original facade was made of copper, and over the course of time, developed a patina (just like the Statue of Liberty). It was painted white in the mid-1960s.
When the stadium was renovated in the 1970s, 10 rows were added to the top of upper deck, and the support columns were removed. The original roof had to be removed; the facade was...

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