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Chicago Motor Coach Company by Jack Doyle
GO THE MOTOR COACH WAY Hyde Park Historical Society Sunday, April 7, 2019 2-4pm 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue Light refreshments will be served Chicago Motor Coach Company chronicles an era with buses first [...]
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House March 31, 2019
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House Sunday, March 31, 2019 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue 2 - 4pm The Hyde Park Historical Society invites you to join us for an open house on March 31st. [...]
HP Book Club Meeting Monday, March 18, 2019
HYDE PARK BOOK CLUB, MONDAY March 18, 2019 Finding Hyde Park: Show and Tell. We will be looking for books with significant and/or interesting sections on Hyde Park, both fiction and non‐fiction. Take a look at your libraries and see if you can find something to bring for Monday.
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
Special Sections
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 [...]
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HP Book Club Monday, May 20, 2019
Monday, May 20, 2019 Hyde Park Historical Society 5529 S. Lake Park 7:30pm Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications that shaped the city and its image Neil Harris & Susan [...]
Flashlight Tour of Jackson Park
The Hyde Park Historical Society, Friends of the Parks and the Jackson Park Advisory Council present a Chicago Park District Night Out in the Parks Flashlight Tour of Jackson Park: [...]
Chicago Motor Coach Company by Jack Doyle
GO THE MOTOR COACH WAY Hyde Park Historical Society Sunday, April 7, 2019 2-4pm 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue Light refreshments will be served Chicago Motor Coach Company chronicles [...]
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House March 31, 2019
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House Sunday, March 31, 2019 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue 2 - 4pm The Hyde Park Historical Society invites you to join us for an [...]