Baldwin Park

Barry Coates 8 months ago

This is a great small park! The trees are beautiful, the birds and squirrels are fun to watch Tim around. For where this park is it's really quiet. They have some really nice picnic tables, chess tables, work out equipment and playground equipment. I'm glad we came here.

Doug Green a month ago

The City of Houston acquired Elizabeth Baldwin Park in 1905. It consists of 4.88 acres on Elgin Street between Crawford and Chenevert Streets in a proud old neighborhood facing revitalization in the twenty-first century in the form of renovated houses and newly built townhouses and businesses. The Park is named after Elizabeth Baldwin, whose father was the brother-in-law to Houston's co-founder, Augustus C. Allen. When Elizabeth died, she reserved a portion of her estate to purchase and preserve parkland in the Houston area. Little more than a lawn for picnics in its early days, Baldwin Park was fitted out in 1912 with a stone fountain dedicated to the wife of Houston’s founder, Charlotte Allen. The park was upgraded through a bond initiative in 1930 and 1931 and was a popular tennis center for years. The most recent improvements have resulted from the 2003 bond sale by the Midtown Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone and the plans of the Midtown Management District. New trees have been planted to supplement the hundred-year-old specimens dating from the park’s birth, and an irrigation system has been put into place. A crushed granite jogging trail has been installed, as have new picnic tables, chess tables, and sidewalks. The Vietnamese Heritage Plaza greets visitors in a variety of languages and honors the Vietnamese community that flourishes in Midtown. The old park has been reborn as a monument to civic pride and the efforts of the area’s twenty-first century citizens. The Elizabeth Baldwin Park is located in Midtown, just south of Downtown on Elgin at Crawford.

The Honest Insight 9 months ago

The walking path and beautiful trees are the highlight at this park. The playground can use a good cleaning and some of the items don’t work. Limited parking spots but plenty of street parking on surrounding streets

Bryan 11 months ago

Gorgeous Southern Live Oak Trees that grow out instead of up. I love the section of the park with the tree and you can dine under the tree or play a game with chess. These trees are also fantastic climbing trees for slightly older children. The park had lots of shade open grassy areas and a playground. It had a couple parking spots too, but I also had no issue finding parking around the park as well. Loved my time there.

Deedra Kupolati 4 months ago

The Google search was parks with swing sets near me. This was the 2nd location. The swingset in question has 1.baby swing 1 special needs (high back) swing and 1 big kids swing. My autistic swing soothing child can only fit the big kids swing but it was occupied. It was nice to see parents with thei4 kids. She did find the double circle spinning stim and it worked but she kept eyeing the big kid swing. Patience proved fruitful as she was able to get on the big swing eventually. *this review was transcribed in real time*