Hyde Square
Hyde Square takes its name from Jerusa Hyde, an prominent Jamaica Plain farmer of the early 1800s (not from the London, New York or the Boston neighborhood). The actual Square is the traffic circle where Centre, Perkins and Day Street merge. Hyde Square is a mix of commercial and residential - with a real mix in each of those categories. Small local businesses run the gamut from botanicas to bowling alleys. Residential structures include 2-story brick rowhouses, large Victorian houses to triple-deckers. Once a large German neighborhood (street names like Bismarck and Mozart are a clue to that history) it is now a largely Hispanic area. As Centre Street goes through Hyde Square it has the additional name of Avenida de las Americas.
