amarette's Profile

Wonderful to see such devoted homeowners in Hyde Park! In the early '70s I loved to walk the area to admire the regal street layout and the pre-1900 stone or brick estates with enormous, once formal, now overgrown grounds.

Never knew of anybody who lived in Hyde Park, except one famous long-time resident - Thomas Hart Benton.

The neighborhood was pretty much abandoned due to "white flight" to Kansas after desegregation in 1968. Sadly, no matter how revitalized, white families who live on the Missouri side send their kids to private schools.