These photos chronicle Princeton Stadium construction during March-May 1998. Click on any of the previews to see a larger image.

By early March, the visitor's upper deck is more than half-completed; these views are from Caldwell Field House, with the track in the foreground.

The visitor's upper deck is built the same as the home side's upper deck: first comes the lower portion of the outside wall, then the diagonal braces that will support the upper deck, and finally a crane lowers the seats themselves into place.

From Clarke Field, baseball fans watch the visitor's side extend north. On the left, you can see one of the concrete braces awaiting the last section of seats. On the right (and several weeks later), the seats are hidden by the outer wall.

Look north from Jadwin Gym in March, and your view of Olden Street disappears as the north end of the horseshoe wall rises piecemeal in the distance. In the foreground, you'll notice U-shaped notches in the rear of the track's grandstands. Those will hold the supports for the grandstand's awning. The awning's metal skeleton was assembled in late March in the south endzone of the football field; the crane just behind the track's grandstands will soon hoist the skeleton into place.

On April 4, Weaver Track and Field Stadium hosts its first meet: the Sam Howell Memorial Invitational. The awning's superstructure is in-place over the grandstand, and supported above and behind it is the football stadium's scoreboard.

The fabric which will complete the awning won't be installed for several more weeks, affording a good look at the skeleton that will support it.

Princeton Stadium's scoreboard stands above the lower deck in the south end, not far from where it stood in Palmer Stadium. Seen from the track in late March, the scoreboard's empty frame sits behind the grandstand's awning. A few days later the scoreboard takes its place (seen from front and back).

Unlike Palmer, the new stadium will be lit. Here's one of many clusters of lights delivered in early April, awaiting installation atop the outer wall.

Throughout late April and May, supports for the lights are mounted to the top of the wall on both home and visitor sides. These view of the home side also show the press box taking shape.

You're looking through the northwest corner of the stadium, still open to allow construction vehicle access to the interior. At the stadium's north end, a crane is sandwiched between the curving outside wall and the upper deck it's presently installing. The crane will complete its job in early May, and make a timely exit through the gap in mid-May.

Travellers on Western Way who have grown accustomed to a view of Jadwin Gym find it replaced with the more traditional view of a football stadium.

The outside wall that began on the home side near the Armory now stretches to the north end of the stadium, and curves around to the northwest corner. The outside wall on the visitor side also approaches the same spot; around May 5 the two will finally meet between sections 20 and 21. (Shades of the Golden Spike.)