Hyde Park is Austin's first planned suburb, developed in the 1890s on a grid of wide, tree-canopied streets north of the UT campus. It is now the most intact Victorian and early 20th-century residential neighbourhood in Austin — a quiet, walkable district of craftsman bungalows, Colonial Revivals, and the occasional Queen Anne, most of them well-maintained and still residential.
The neighbourhood's commercial strips — Duval Street and Speedway — have the neighbourhood restaurants, bakeries, and coffeehouses that the residents use daily. The Elisabet Ney Museum is in Hyde Park. The neighbourhood also contains Austin's oldest still-operating diner: the Hyde Park Bar and Grill, which has been serving the neighbourhood since the early 20th century (with interruptions). Hyde Park is one of those Austin neighbourhoods that hasn't been entirely transformed by gentrification and tech money, which gives it a different texture than South Congress or East Austin.