Walking Tour of Hyde Square
When:
Saturday, Jul 04, 2020 11:00a -
12:00p
Saturday, Jul 04, 2020 11:00a -
12:00p
Where:
Brendan Behan Pub
378 Centre St
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Date Idea, History
Event website:
www.jphs.org
Join the JP Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New England Conservatory of Music in 1890. You will also learn about the property currently housing the MSPCA’s Angell Animal Medical Center which was once a site of the Perkins School for the Blind. The tour will also walk through the Sunnyside neighborhood, the site of homes built by philanthropist Robert Treat Paine from 1889 to 1899 as a “worker’s utopia” for working families.
We will have tours in August and October that will also be given in Spanish.
Please plan to comply with any COVID 19 directives in effect.
