Historic Hyde Park
Two centuries ago, Levi Coller and his family lived on the land that’s now Hyde Park, raising crops to sell the soldiers at Fort Brooke. In 1838, the land passed to Nancy Coller Jackson and her husband Robert, and 44 years later, William Morrison built the neighborhood’s oldest home (850 South Newport Avenue). In 1886, Obadiah Platt bought a 20-acre plot from the Jacksons, breaking it up into lots to create Tampa’s first subdivision, which he named Hyde Park after his old Chicago neighborhood. Hyde Park was developed over decades, so its architecture varies widely from revival and bungalow to prairie and vernacular.