Guy Lowell

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Guy Lowell : biography

August 6, 1870 – February 4, 1927

Lowell also published several books, including: American Gardens (1902), Smaller Italian Villas and Farmhouses (1916), and More Small Italian Villas and Farmhouses (1920). He also contributed to American Gardens, a photographic magazine.

Guy Lowell died in the Madeira Islands.

Major buildings and gardens

  • 1902 Lowell Lecture Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1906 Fox Clubhouse, 44 JFK Street (formerly 44 Boylston), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1904 Emerson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1909 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • 1910 Charles River Dam, including the Boston Embankment, the Upper and Lower Lock Gate Houses, the Stable, the Boat House, and an open pavilion
  • 1912 Natirar, Somerset Hills, New Jersey
  • 1913 New York State Supreme Courthouse, New York City
  • 1913 Planting Fields Arboretum, Oyster Bay, New York
  • 1929 Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan

Notes

Category:1870 births Category:1927 deaths Category:People from Boston, Massachusetts Category:American landscape architects Category:American garden writers Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Category:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Category:American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts

Other selected buildings

  • 1900 13 Follen Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, built for Alice Lowell Ropes
  • 1901 Tupper Manor (now part of Endicott College), Beverly, Massachusetts
  • 1902 Johnson Memorial Fountain, Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1904 Spring Lawn, Kemble Street, Lenox, Massachusetts
  • 1907 Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
  • 1907 Unitarian Church of Barnstable, Cobb’s Hill, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  • 1909 New Hampshire Historical Society building, 30 Park Street, Concord, New Hampshire; the pediment contains sculpture by Daniel Chester French that includes the Society’s crest flanked by figures representing Modern History and Ancient History
  • 1911 Piping Rock Clubhouse, Locust Valley, New York
  • 1912 Harvard University President’s House, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1915 Boscawen Public Library, Boscawen, New Hampshire
  • 1921 Community House, Hamilton, Massachusetts
  • 1922 at www.andover.edu Fuller Memorial Bell Tower, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts