It's difficult to say anything new about Hyde Park. Perhaps Austin's most beloved central neighborhood, the area bound by Guadalupe, West 45th, Duval, and West 38th Streets has been extensively preserved, chronicled, celebrated, and fought for with an intensity arguably unlike that of any other part of the city.
Like Windsor Park, the similarly posh-sounding neighborhood that followed in its footsteps roughly half a century later, the history of Hyde Park and its founding is . . .