Tag Archives: University Park

Chainsaw artist Don Becker is working on another sculpture in University Park. A tree stump along the town’s popular Wells Run park is slowly becoming a yellow-crowned night heron, a crab-eating migratory bird described as “more solitary and often more … Continue reading

Hyattsville is a one-car kind of town. According to the American Community Survey’s 2012 estimates for Hyattsville, more than 60 percent of Hyattsville residents have either one car or none. That’s roughly 19 percentage points higher than the national average. The … Continue reading

It’s a little surprising that sleepy little University Park was also home to one of the most hardboiled of crime fiction authors. Or maybe not. If you read James M. Cain’s novels — or watch film noir adaptations of “Double … Continue reading

The Hyattsville Wire recently spotted a wood carving of Kermit the Frog along one of the walking trails in University Park’s Town Park. We are learning more about the backstory on the carving, though a resident of the area said … Continue reading

A small town in Minnesota still sells posters of a University Park artist’s long-destroyed mural from their local post office. In 1936, David M. Granahan painted a mural of farmland around the town of Hopkins, Minn., for the Works Progress … Continue reading

Example of a restrictive covenant from a sale on Aug. 1, 1938, in University Park from "A Brief History of the Town of University Park."

Posted on by Ryan Teague Beckwith

Restrictive Covenants in University Park

If you bought a house in University Park in 1938, you were prohibited from selling it to a racial minority. Continue reading

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