Tour meets at the corner of Hyde Park Avenue and River Street: Cleary Square.

Directions: Bus service is available via Forest Hills or Mattapan MBTA stations. For further information, call Ed Gordon at (617) 789-3927.

Admission: $8 Members VSA/NE; $10 Nonmembers.

HYDE PARK was incorporated in 1868 along the Neponset River from portions of the towns of Dorchester, Milton and Dedham. The new town, only nine miles from downtown Boston was served by the Boston and Providence Railroad and would grow tremendously throughout the late nineteenth century, culminating with its annexation to the city of Boston in 1912.
        The tour is in honor of the 140th anniversary of the town’s founding, and will highlight the area of Everett Square, Fairmount and Sunnyside as well as the architecture of the last five decades of the Nineteenth century. The town had been developed by the “Twenty Associates” who built houses on Fairmount Hill (then a part of Milton) with the founder of the town being Alpheus Perley Blake.
        The tour will highlight Christ Church (1893 by Cram, Wentworth & Ferguson) Most Precious Blood Church (1885, Keeley & Houghton) the home of John and Eliot Enneking, two noted artists, and the recent addition to the Hyde Park Library by Swartz Silver Associates.

Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Hyde Park's 140th Anniversary

2:00 P.M.
Tour Leader: Anthony Mitchell Sammarco, Author and Historian