Hyde Park (Boston)

Hyde Park
The First Congregational Church in the Hyde Park neighborhood
Borough of Boston
Basic data
Foundation :	self-governing until 1868, annexed by Boston in 1912
State :	United States
State :	Massachusetts
County :	Suffolk
Coordinates :	42 ° 15 ′  N , 71 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 15 ′  N , 71 ° 7 ′  W
Time zone :	Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Inhabitants : -  Metropolitan Area :	28,422 (as of 2011) 4,578,865 (as of 2011)
Postal code :	02136
Area code :	+1 617, 857

Hyde Park is a former municipality and current district ( Neighborhood ) of Boston in the state of Massachusetts of the United States . There is a wide range of house types and social groupings, so that the district, despite its location in the middle of the city, has characteristics of a suburb. Hyde Park forms District E-18 of the Boston Police Department .

The after the baseball player of the Atlanta Braves named and Donald Ross -designed George Wright Golf Course lies partly in Hyde Park , partly in neighboring Roslindale .

history

In 1845, retired businessman Henry Grew and his family vacationed south of Boston in what was then the western part of Dorchester . Near the valley through which the Neponset River flows, he discovered a place from where he had an excellent view of the Blue Hills and decided to purchase the land in question, covering an area of ​​several hundred acres . This land later became known as Grew's Woods and is still today part of the Stony Brook Reservation and the George Wright Golf Course . In 1847, Grew finally relocated to his newly acquired land. In the following years, bought Hyde Park Land Company 200 acres (800,000 m²) land in the same area and began the construction of houses around an unofficial stop on the Boston and Providence Railroad at Kenny's Bridge on the road from Dedham to Milton Lower Mills (now the Hyde Park station of the MBTA at the River Street ). The next official stop was the Readville station .

Today, however , the founder of Hyde Park is Alpheus Perley Blake, who, together with 20 partners for the Fairmount Land Company, opened up the Fairmount Hill district on the west side of Brush Hill Road in Milton in 1856 . This led to the construction of a bridge over the Neponset River and the construction of a train station for the New York and New England Railroad (now Fairmount Station ). Within a few years, the two development companies merged, which accelerated growth even more. By 1867 there were already six train stations in this area.

At the Massachusetts General Court one was petition addressed to the city on 22 April 1868 in support of self-government Hyde Park in Norfolk County led whose limits the populated country in Dorchester ( Grew's Woods and the areas of Hyde Park Land Company ), Milton and Dedham included. Hyde Park was part of Norfolk County until 1912 , when it was voted in favor of annexation to Boston, Suffolk County .

In the 1960s, Hyde Park threatened to split off from Boston in the event that the city actually built the proposed Southwest Expressway , thus splitting Hyde Park into a fork.

Hyde Park has a diverse and active industrial past. The Westinghouse Sturtevant company was based there for almost 130 years .

Religions

There are many churches in Hyde Park , including the Catholic Churches Most Precious Blood , Saint Adalbert’s and Saint Anne’s and the Episcopal Church Christ Church - Iglesia de San Juan , which is registered in the NRHP .

Population development

The inhabitants of Hyde Park come - similar to South Boston , Charlestown and Dorchester - mainly from Poland , Italy and Ireland . In 2011, around 46% white, 37% African-American , 19% Hispanic or Latino and 2% Asians lived in the district.

Culture and sights

Buildings

In Hyde Park's business district , Cleary Square and Logan Square are home to a variety of historic buildings, including the borough's post-annex City Hall . The YMCA building dates from 1902 and was completely renovated in 2010. Also worth seeing are the English Eucharist Church , built in Gothic style in 1885, and Christ Church, completed in 1895 .

The building of the local branch of the Boston Public Library was erected in 1899 and almost doubled in area in 2000 thanks to a contemporary extension. There is an opera house on Fairmount Avenue that was built by Leroy J. French in 1897 and is now the venue for the Riverside Theater Works .

In addition, Hyde Park has a variety of 19th and early 20th century warehouses and factory buildings, most of which are in Readville or along the Neponset River and Mother Brook . On Fairmount Hill there are many architecturally interesting houses in the architectural styles Italianate , Gothic Revival and Victorian .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Commuter Train Fairmount the MBTA to Readville , the shortest connection from Hyde Park to Boston city center and may in the station Hyde Park at Cleary Square be entered. There are also stops on the Providence / Stoughton and Franklin railway lines . In addition to the train connections, there are also several bus routes that offer connections to the Orange Line , Red Line in Jamaica Plain and Mattapan .

By 1875, GE Mansfield was operating the Sumner Heights and Hazelwood Valley Railroad from his home to the train station.

education

The Boston Public Library has a branch in Hyde Park , the building of which won an architecture award from the American Institute of Architects . Construction began in 1898 and opened in 1899. In 1912, when the district was annexed, the library became part of the Boston Public Library . In 1997, construction work began on an extension and the renovation of the existing building. In January 2000 the reopening took place in the presence of the Boston Mayor Thomas Menino . In May 2006 the library received the Best Accessible Design Award .

schools

The Boston Public Schools run all of the borough's public schools:

• Henry S. Grew Elementary School
• William E. Channing
• Elihu Greenwood
• William Barton Rogers Middle School
• Franklin D. Roosevelt K-8 School

There are also the following charter schools :

• Academy of the Pacific Rim
• Boston Preparatory Charter Public School
• Boston Trinity Academy
• Boston Renaissance Charter School (part of the Academy of the Pacific Rim)

Hyde Park High School

Since the founding days of Hyde Park as an independent city there has been a public high school - located in different locations over the years - but the first purpose-built building was not completed until 1902 on Harvard Avenue and Everett Street , where it is today the Rogers Middle School is located. As part of the annexation, the college became part of the Boston Public Schools and was given a new building on Central / Metropolitan Avenue in the 1920s . In 2005 the high school was rebuilt as the Hyde Park Education Complex and was divided into the three smaller high schools Community Academy of Science and Health (CASH) , The Engineering School and Social Justice Academy . In 2011, however, the complex was dismantled and the latter two schools were closed. CASH , on the other hand, stayed open and moved to Dorchester . There are plans to move the Boston Latin Academy from Roxbury to the now vacant Hyde Park High School building .

Colleges

The private Boston Baptist College is located on Fairmount Hill .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Elizabeth Short (1924–1947), waitress and murder victim in 1947, known as "The Black Dahlia"
• Manny Delcarmen (* 1982), relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies

Personalities who have worked on site

• Angelina Emily Grimké (1805–1879), abolitionist and suffragette
• Henry B. Carrington (1824–1912), Union Forces General in the Civil War and one of the founders of the Republican Party
• John Joseph Enneking (1841-1911), painter of Impressionism
• Childe Hassam (1859-1935), artist
• Arthur Vining Davis (1867–1962), chairman of the board of directors of Alcoa from 1928 to 1958
• Robert Frederick Drinan (1920-2007), Roman Catholic Jesuit - Priest and Professor of Law at Boston College
• Thomas Menino (1942–2014), Mayor of Boston
• Felix D. Arroyo (* 1948), first Latino city ​​councilor of Boston
• Maura Tierney (* 1965), actress , best known for her roles in NewsRadio and Emergency Room

literature

• Hyde Park . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 14 : Husband - Italic . London 1911, p. 31 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Hyde Park, Boston  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Hyde Park on Google Maps
• Map of Hyde Park. (PDF) City of Boston

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boston's Neighborhoods. Hyde Park. Boston Redevelopment Authority, 2011, accessed May 10, 2012 . 
2. ^ Hyde Park historical record. Hyde Park Historical Society, 1892, accessed May 11, 2012 . 
3. ^ Hyde Park. (PDF; 1.3 MB) Exploring Boston's Neighborhoods. Boston Landmarks Commission, 1996, accessed May 11, 2012 . 
4. ^ Memorial sketch of Hyde Park, Mass., For the first twenty years of its corporate existence (1868–1888). Retrieved May 11, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Geoff Lewis, John Avault, Jim Vrabel: History of Boston's Economy, Growth and Transition 1970-1998. (PDF; 182 kB) (No longer available online.) Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1999, archived from the original on July 23, 2013 ; accessed on May 11, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Southwest Expressway unbuilt. BostonRoads.com, accessed May 11, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Hyde Park Factory - Bldg A. Sturtevant, accessed on May 11, 2012 (English). 
8. ^ Parish of Christ Church / Iglesia de San Juan. Retrieved May 11, 2012 . 
9. ^ People in Hyde Park (zip 02136), Massachusetts. In: Sperling's Best Places. Retrieved May 11, 2012 . 
10. ^ Hyde Park YMCA. YMCA of Greater Boston, accessed May 14, 2012 . 
11. ^ ^{A b} Hyde Park Branch. Boston Public Library , accessed May 14, 2012 . 
12. ^ Riverside Theater Works. Retrieved May 14, 2012 . 
13. ^ Hyde Park and Victorian Fairmount, Boston. Hyde Park Massachusetts Walks. In: Trails.com. Retrieved May 14, 2012 . 
14. ^ William E. Channing Elementary School. (No longer available online.) Boston Public Schools, archived from the original on June 12, 2010 ; accessed on May 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ^ Elihu Greenwood Elementary School. (No longer available online.) Boston Public Schools, archived from the original on June 12, 2010 ; accessed on May 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ^ William Barton Rogers Middle School. (No longer available online.) Boston Public Schools, archived from the original on June 12, 2010 ; accessed on May 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ↑ Franklin D. Roosevelt K-8 School. (No longer available online.) Boston Public Schools, archived from the original on June 12, 2010 ; accessed on May 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ^ Academy of the Pacific Rim. Retrieved May 14, 2012 . 
19. ^ Boston Preparatory Charter Public School. Retrieved May 14, 2012 . 
20. ^ Boston Trinity Academy. Retrieved May 14, 2012 . 
21. ^ Gintautas Dumcius: Teachers, residents hit plan to move Latin Academy to Hyde Park. In: Dorchester Reporter . August 18, 2011, accessed May 14, 2012 . 
22. ^ Boston Baptist College. Retrieved May 14, 2012 . 
23. ↑ John Joseph Enneking Biography . Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 26, 2007. 
24. ↑ Felix Arroyo Biography . Archived from the original on March 27, 2007. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 16, 2007.