HPHS Upcoming & Recent Events
Hyde Park Book Club: Monday, January 18, 2021
Hyde Park Book Club Monday, January 18, 2021 7:30pm Via Zoom Richard Courage and Christopher [...]
Hyde Park Book Club: Monday, February 15, 2021
Hyde Park Book Club Monday, February 15, 2021 7:30pm Via Zoom Bette Howland (1937-2017): W-3 [...]
Hyde Park Book Club: Monday, October 19, 2020
Hyde Park Book Club Monday, October 19, 2020 7:30pm Discussions with: Carlo Rotella, author of: The World [...]
Hyde Park Book Club: Monday, November 16, 2020
Hyde Park Book Club Monday, November 16, 2020 7:30pm Via Zoom Discussions with: Peter M. Ascoli [...]
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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 [...]
Designed to Dazzle & Delight: Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park with historian Julia Bachrach
Statue of the Republic, Jackson Park (photo by Julia Bachrach) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH • 4:30PM-5:45PM Renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was unimpressed when he first laid eyes on what would become Chicago’s South [...]
From Swamps to Parks: Building Chicago’s Public Spaces
The Museum of Science and Industry was built as the Palace of Fine Arts for the World’s Columbian Exposition. This photograph documents the building’s construction, circa 1892. Photograph by C.D. Arnold. Chicago Public Library, C.D. Arnold [...]
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 [...]
