Kelvyn Park
TYPE + SIZE
~9 acres: Field house, Playlot, spray lot, large field, volleyball (grass), soccer, tennis, shade trees, walking path, full workout gym.
LOCATION
Community: Hermosa
Ward: 31st
Just south of Diversey, on Kostner Ave
4438 W. Wrightwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60639
Fieldhouse: open M-F later evenings, Saturdays 9-5.
Call: 312-742-7547
Park Supervisor: Roberto Lugo
Park Advisory Council?: Yes
HISTORY FROM THE CHICAGO PARK DISTRICT
Kelvyn was among the original parks created by the Northwest Park District, which first formed in 1911. At that time, the Northwest Park District aimed to provide one park for each of the ten square miles within its growing middle-class jurisdiction....In 1928, a handsome two-story brick field house was constructed, designed by architect Walter W. Ahlschlager (1887–1965).
Kelvyn Park takes its name from the British Baronet William Thomson Kelvin (1824–1907), responsible for the concepts and terms of the Kelvin scale, "absolute zero," and many discoveries in thermodynamics."