Hyde Park is a true merger of city life and suburban life. Hyde Park prides itself on its tremendous amount of useful, open space including the George Wright Golf Course, but it also retains the City’s character in its people and community institutions.

Hyde Park is a welcoming place where you can chat with your neighbor at the hardware store, meet friends for coffee and visit the American Institute of Architects award winning Branch of the Boston Public Library. The individual connection with community that is the best of small town life combined with being part of a world class city, with all the resources of the City of Boston.

History, arts and culture all of this can be found right here in Hyde Park, only a 10 minute ride by commuter rail from South Station to Cleary Square.

Hyde Park-Readville grew up along the road (now known as River Street) between Lower Mills and Dedham that was laid out in the 1660s. Hyde Park-Readville began to grow as a manufacturing community in the early 18 th century, when paper and cotton mills and other factories were built there to take advantage of the water power supplied by the Neponset River and Mother Brook. As with many Boston neighborhoods, the extension of rail lines beginning in the 1850s sparked the area's residential development. Hyde Park-Readville incorporated as a town in 1868. Continued residential growth, and the increased demand for services, persuaded residents to vote for annexation with Boston in 1912, making Hyde Park-Readville the last town to be annexed by the city.

Hyde Park-Readville has always been involved in the politics of the day. The community was home to a number of abolitionist and women's suffrage leaders. In the Civil War, Camp Meigs, near Sprague Pond in Readville, was the training ground for nearly 26,000 Massachusetts soldiers, more than any other camp in the state, including the 54 th regiment (the first black regiment mustered for the Civil War and the subject of the move "Glory") and officers like James Monroe Trotter, the first black officer of the American Army. As recently as 1962, the community threatened to secede from the city to protest a proposed, but ultimately never built, highway. Hyde Park is also the place Boston Mayor Thomas Menino calls home.