Hyde Park Historic District

Hyde Park is a 32-block neighborhood about 20 blocks north of Austin's original town site, laid out in 1891 as a residential suburb by Monroe M. Shipe and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Land and Town Company. Promoted as "The Pride of Austin," it is described as the city's first streetcar suburb, closely tied to the electric streetcar line Shipe installed in 1890. Detached single-family houses on 50-by-120-foot lots define the area. Bungalows make up about 80 percent of the historic dwellings, most built in the 1920s and early 1930s. Victorian-era vernacular houses, some with Queen Anne detailing, account for about 15 percent, and a few Tudor Revival houses appear as well. Shipe Park, dedicated in 1928, is the largest open space. The district contains 273 contributing and 237 noncontributing resources, and about 90 percent of the historic structures were built by 1935. It was recognized for its architecture, with a period of significance from 1891 to 1941.