Wood cottages and Tudor Revival brick sit under live oak canopy, and the Baker Center is the school The CW's Walker uses as Sacred Heart High.
What Hyde Park looks like
Wood frame cottages and bungalows sit on individual lots along the numbered streets and lettered avenues under live oak and pecan canopy. Alleys run behind most blocks, so garages and sheds face the lane rather than the street. The plainest of these houses stand close to Speedway, their eaves near the sidewalk with almost no space between the porch rail and the curb.
Tudor Revival cottages on Avenue H have steep cross gables, arched entries and chimneys built up in patterned brick, a few blocks that went up later than the plain wood houses near Speedway. Two storey houses with wraparound porches and iron fences stand along Avenue A, set back behind low hedges.
keeps its narrow clapboard front at 44th Street, red screen doors and soft drink signs painted above the porch. The building dates to 1909. The , a three storey brick building on Avenue B at 39th Street, has round arched window openings and an iron fence along its lawn. On West 40th Street, is plain white clapboard with a single corner bell tower.
One of the city's 1895 moonlight towers still stands over Speedway, an iron frame holding a ring of lights above the rooflines. A 1927 storefront building at Guadalupe and 41st now holds a run of small shops behind its original brick front, the ground floor windows unchanged since it opened as a grocery and a variety store.
Shot in Hyde Park
The CW series Walker uses Baker Center's brick school building on Avenue B as the exterior of the fictional Sacred Heart High School. A few blocks north, Terrence Malick's Song to Song shot a scene at on East 43rd Street, where Cook meets Rhonda while she waits tables.
Walker, 2021
Baker Center
Played Sacred Heart High School
On Avenue B, the Baker Center plays the exterior of Sacred Heart High School in Walker. The three storey cream brick building keeps its arched window openings, iron fence and garden beds along the front walk, unchanged for the show. Street View
What Hyde Park can double for
Junius Heights in Dallas, Texas
Junius Heights was built out between the 1910s and the 1930s with the same Craftsman and Prairie style bungalows on individual lots, each with a deep front porch. The lot sizes and rear alley layout match these blocks closely. Junius Heights runs to larger, more ornamented porches along its main streets, so the plainer wood cottages hold the match better in a tight frame. Try searching Craftsman bungalow front porch now.
Sunset Heights mixes Prairie style bungalows with Tudor Revival houses from the same decades as the brick cottages on Avenue H. A number were designed by the same regional builders working in both cities. Sunset Heights sits on a hillside with larger mansions mixed in, so a wide shot gives away the terrain; tighter framing on a single cottage holds the match. Try searching Tudor Revival cottage now.
