HPHS Upcoming & Recent Events
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House Saturday, April 14 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue 2 [...]
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House
Hyde Park Historical Society Open House Sunday, March 18 5529 S. Lake Park Avenue 2-4pm [...]
Hyde Park Book Club Meeting Topics, March 19 Meeting
Hi Everyone, I am very pleased to announce that Claire Hartfield, author of the recently [...]
SET IN STONE: THE ART OF STONE CARVING
Walter Arnold, stonecutter and Hyde Park/Kenwood native, will discuss his training and career and will [...]
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 [...]
