HPHS Upcoming & Recent Events
Hyde Park Book Club Change of Venue
Hi Everyone, As you know, we have lost our meeting room space with the closing [...]
Celebrate The Life of Jazz Pianist Willie Pickens
Dear friends, Last July, a group of friends began to look for a way to [...]
Remarkable Women of the U of C: Hanna Holborn Gray, Muriel Beadle, Maude Hutchins
Hyde Park Book Club. Remarkable Women of the University of Chicago: Hanna Holborn Gray, Muriel Beadle, Maude Hutchins
HPHS Video
Hyde Park History
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 [...]
Ferris Wheel in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
The Society is delighted to present this wonderful description of the Life and Death of Chicago's great Ferris Wheel of 1893. It was written by Patrick Meehan in 1964 while he was a 4th year [...]
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.
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 [...]
