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Hyde Park Center:
The section of Hyde Park between 53rd and 55th Streets, and between Harper and Woodlawn Avenue, is the oldest part of our neighborhood. It is also the most modest, the most urban [...]
Hyde Park Historical Society Headquarters
Hyde Park Historical Society is housed in a building which originally was a waiting room for cable car personnel.
The History of Hyde Park
The history of Hyde Park begins with the arrival in Chicago of a young lawyer, Paul Cornell. He was descended from a family which first arrived in the “New World” in 1638. His cousin, Ezra [...]
Historic Buildings
Hyde Park Center:
The section of Hyde Park between 53rd and 55th Streets, and between Harper and Woodlawn Avenue, is the oldest part of our neighborhood. It is also the most modest, the most urban [...]
Hyde Park Historical Society Headquarters
Hyde Park Historical Society is housed in a building which originally was a waiting room for cable car personnel.
Robie House
The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark on the campus of the University of Chicago in the neighborhood of Hyde Park in [...]
Hyde Park Homes
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History of Hyde Park by A.T. Andreas
This territory was the district bounded by Thirty ninth Street on the north by Grand Boulevard or South Park Avenue on the west by Lake Michigan on the east and by Eighty seventh Street [...]
Lincoln’s Hyde Park
Lincoln’s Hyde Park By SUSAN O’CONNOR DAVIS Designed by one of the city’s first practicing architects, Gurdon P. Randall, the Hyde Park House was built at Oak (53rd) Street on the shore of Lake Michigan in 1859. The hotel was the center of the community’s social life where, in just a short stroll from the train station, one could find a dining room that offered fine delicacies and an elegant parlor with a wide view of the lake. The property was improved with a landing pier for excursion [...]
Most Shared Posts
Hyde Park’s Bonnie & Clyde: Larry Baran, author of The Housewife Loved a Bandit
Presents: Hyde Park’s Bonnie & Clyde Larry Baran, author of The Housewife Loved a Bandit, will show and tell how his mother, Flo Baran, escaped [...]
Hyde Park Book Club: Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
Hyde Park Book Club presents Lee Bey author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side Monday, February 17, 2020 [...]
HPHS Open House Schedule for January and February/March
HPHS Open House Schedule: January - February/March The Nancy Hays exhibit is still up, so if you missed the previous dates you can still see it. If you have already [...]
UChicago Folk Festival: Influencer for 60 Years
Get ready for the 2020 UChicago Folk Festival to be held February 14-15, 2020! Join the Hyde Park Historical Society in celebrating the benchmark 60th Anniversaryof the UChicago Folk Festival, the acclaimed longest running student organized folk festival in the country.