The charming Hyde Park Square is an easy stroll or jog for the young urban professional and business executives who enjoy its location only 10 minutes from downtown Cincinnati. The 14,000 residents meet at the Square for exclusive shopping, dinner or homemade ice cream. Graeter's Ice Cream parlor, located on Hyde Park Square, is the oldest surviving ice cream manufacturer in America (125 years) and the only one left that still makes ice cream using the French pot method.

In 1900 real-estate investor Charles Kilgour donated the park's fountain to the people of Hyde Park. Centrally located on Hyde Park Square, this bronze fountain features a classically draped female figure, lion-head water spouts and fluted basins. The work of Cincinnati-born sculptor Joseph Cronin (1859-1923), the fountain was restored and redesigned in 1976 by Eleftherios Karkadoulias, who lowered the lamps and added a large concrete pool. Following a complete restoration and revamping, Hyde Park Square was rededicated on September 18, 1976, for the bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence.

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