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Allanbank, Beverly, 1901.

Lowell Lecture Hall of Harvard University, 1902.

Fox Club, Cambridge, 1906.

Iowa State Memorial, Vicksburg National Military Park, 1906.

The Unitarian Church of Barnstable, 1907.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, designed by Lowell in the Neoclassical style and completed in phases beginning in 1909.

President's House of Harvard University, 1912.

Community House in Hamilton, 1921.

Boyden Hall of Bridgewater State University, 1926.

Bardwell Auditorium of Dana Hall School, 1929.

Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, 1929.

In 1906 The Architectural Review published a review of Lowell's works by Benjamin F. W. Russell, an associate of Lowell. Russell argued that Lowell's works illustrated the value that a Beaux-Arts education could provide.^[1]

From 1900 until his death in March 1918, Lowell was associated in his landscape architecture practice with A. Robeson Sargent, his brother-in-law. Sargent was abroad from 1903 to 1906.^[2]

After Lowell's death, his firm was carried on by his associates Ralph C. Henry and Henry P. Richmond under the name Henry & Richmond.^[3]

Guy Lowell

In Boston and Massachusetts

• 1901 – Allanbank, Beverly^[4][2]
  • The estate of Bryce J. Allan, a son of Hugh Allan and a partner in the Allan Line. Lowell and Sargent were landscape architects. Now owned by Endicott College and known as Tupper Manor.
• 1902 – Harbor Hill, Roslyn, New York^[2]
  • Designed by architects McKim, Mead & White and landscape architects Lowell and Sargent. Destroyed.
• 1904 – Greentree, Manhasset, New York^[2]
  • The estate of Payne Whitney. Designed by architects d'Hauteville & Cooper with landscape architects Lowell and Sargent.
• 1904 – Hawthorne Hill, Lancaster^[5]
  • The estate of Bayard Thayer. Lowell and Sargent were landscape architects.^[6]
• 1904 – Spring Lawn, Lenox^[7][2]
  • The estate of John E. Alexandre. Lowell and Sargent were landscape architects.
• Paul Drennan Cravath estate, LI^[2]

• Guernsey Curran, Locust Valley, NY
• C. K. G. Billings, Oyster Bay, NY
• Mrs. Louis A. Frothingham, Easton, MA

• 1900 – James Hardy Ropes house, Cambridge^[8]
  • Built for Lowell's sister, Alice, and her husband.
• 1902 – Lowell Lecture Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge^[9]
• 1903 – Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, Andover^[10]
• 1903 – Groton House, Hamilton^[4]
  • The estate of Robert Gould Shaw II and his then-wife, later Lady Astor. They divorced during construction amd the house was sold upon completion to Frederic Winthrop, a descendant of John Winthrop. He named the house Groton House for Groton, Suffolk, his ancestor's home. Who was the landscape architect?
• 1904 – Emerson Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge^[9]
• 1904 – Warren K. Moorehead house, Andover^[1]
  • Moorehead was an archaeologist and founding curator of the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology of Phillips Academy. A contributing resource to the NRHP-listed Academy Hill Historic District.
• 1905 – Westland Gate, Back Bay Fens, Boston^[11]
• 1906 – Alumnae, North and South Halls, Simmons University, Boston^[12]
• 1906 – Fox Club, Cambridge^[8]
• 1906 – Federal Hill Farm, Dedham^[13]
  • The estate of Francis Skinner; now the convent of Ursuline Academy.
• 1907 – Stevens Memorial Library, North Andover^[14]
  • A contributing resource to the NRHP-listed Tavern Acres Historic District.
• 1907 – Unitarian Church of Barnstable, Barnstable^[15]
  • A contributing resource to the NRHP-listed Old King's Highway Historic District.
• 1909 – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston^[16]
  • Lowell completed the Robert Dawson Evans wing facing the Back Bay Fens in 1915. Lowell and Henry & Richmond were also responsible for later additions.
• 1910 – Chelsea Public Library, Chelsea^[17]
• 1910 – Massachusetts State Police barracks, 250 Leverett Cir, Boston^[18]
  • Built as part of the Charles River Dam segment of the Boston Embankment. Lowell also designed the associated lock houses to the south and the stables and boathouse in Cambridge to the west.^[19][20] All are contributing resources to the NRHP-listed Charles River Basin Historic District.
• 1912 – Wayside, Easton^[21]
  • The estate of of Louis A. Frothingham; now home to the Easton town offices. A contributing resource to the NRHP-listed North Easton Historic District.
• 1912 – President's House, Harvard University, Cambridge^[9]
• 1921 – Community House, Hamilton^[22]
  • NRHP-listed.
• 1922 – Dedham Country and Polo Club, Dedham^[23]
• 1923 – Memorial Bell Tower, Phillips Academy, Andover^[24]
• 1924 – Edwin Upton Curtis Memorial, Charles River Esplanade, Boston^[25]
• 1924 – Samuel Phillips Hall, Phillips Academy, Andover^[26]
• 1926 – Boyden and Harrington Halls, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater^[27][28]
• 1927 – Lavietes Pavilion, Harvard University, Allston, Boston^[29]
• 1927 – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston^[30]
• 1929 – Bardwell Auditorium, Dana Hall School, Wellesley^[31]
• 1930 – Massachusetts School of Art (former), Boston^[32]
  • NRHP-listed.
• 1931 – Weeks Junior High School (former), Newton Centre^[33]
  • NRHP-listed.

Elsewhere in New England

• 1904 – Carrie Tower, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island^[34]
• 1905 – River House, York, Maine^[35]
  • The summer home of Mary (Marvin) Goodrich, the widow of Benjamin F. Goodrich. After her death the house was owned by her daughter and son-in-law, Isabella (Goodrich) Breckinridge and John C. Breckinridge III. In 1925 the house was gutted by fire and rebuilt (1927) by Portland architect Herbert W. Rhodes. NRHP-listed as the Isabella Breckinridge House.
• 1908 – Richard D. Sears cottage, Islesboro, Maine^[35]
• 1910 – Cumberland County Courthouse, Portland, Maine^[35]
  • Designed by George Burnham and Guy Lowell, associated architects.
• 1910 – Eegonos, Bar Harbor, Maine^[35]
  • The summer home of Walter G. Ladd. NRHP-listed.
• 1910 – Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, Rhode Island^[36]
  • Designed by Guy Lowell, architect, with Hilton & Jackson, associate architects. Demolished.
• 1911 – New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire^[37]
  • Incorporating a portal sculpture by Daniel Chester French, comprising the Society's crest flanked by figures representing Modern History and Ancient History.
• 1913 – Boscawen Public Library (former), Boscawen, New Hampshire^[38]
  • NRHP-listed.

In New York

• 1902 – Shelving Rock, Lake George, New York^[39][40]
  • The estate of George Owen Knapp. Built on a ledge halfway up Shelving Rock Mountain and accessible only by boat and an electric funicular. An electrical fire destroyed the house in 1917. The property is now incorporated into the Lake George Wild Forest.
• 1907 – Tryon Hall, New York City^[41]
  • The city estate of C. K. G. Billings. Incorporating a lodge and stable complex designed by Lowell for Billings in 1903.^[42] Billings sold the property to John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1917, who developed it as Fort Tryon Park. The house was destroyed by fire in 1926.
• 1915 – Farnsworth, Matinecock, New York^[43]
  • The estate of C. K. G. Billings. Demolished, though outbuildings are extant.
• 1911 – Piping Rock Club, Locust Valley, New York^[44]
• 1915 – Gardens at Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, New York^[45]
  • The estate of William Robertson Coe; designed in association with A. Robeson Sargent, Lowell's brother-in-law. Already on the property was a house (1906, burned 1918) designed by Grosvenor Atterbury for James Byrne; the Coe's replacement house was designed by Walker & Gillette.
• 1916 – Morton Freeman Plant house, New York City^[46]
  • Demolished to build the apartment building at 1050 Fifth Avenue.
• 1927 – New York County Courthouse, New York City^[47][48]
  • Lowell won an architectural competition for a large circular building in 1913, with a revised hexagonal design approved in 1915. Construction did not move ahead until 1919, with a simplified hexagonal plan.

In other states

• 1902 – Crosswicks, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania^[49]
  • The estate of Clement B. Newbold. Beatrix Farrand, landscape architect. Demolished.
• 1904 – Balcarres, Rumson, New Jersey^[50]
  • The estate of Harden L. Crawford.
• 1906 – Iowa State Memorial, Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, Mississippi^[51]
  • Incorporating reliefs by Henry Hudson Kitson and an equestrian statue by Theo A.R. Kitson.
• 1911 – Natirar, Peapack, New Jersey^[52]
  • The estate of Walter G. Ladd.
• 1916 – Ca' di Sopra, Montecito, California^[53]
  • The estate of Robert G. McGann.
• 1916 – Slipher Building, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona^[54]
  • NRHP-listed.
• 1929 – Grosse Pointe Yacht Club, Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan^[55]
  • Executed by Henry & Richmond from Lowell's preliminary sketches, completed in January 1927 shortly before his death.

1. Benjamin F. W. Russell, "The Works of Guy Lowell" in Architectural Review 8, no. 2 (February 1906): 13-40.
2. Sargentobit
3. "Personals" in The American Architect 132, no. 2528 (September 5, 1927): 20.
4. Pamela W. Fox, North Shore Boston: Houses of Essex County, 1865-1940 (New York: Acanthus Press, 2005)
5. Historic Building Detail: LAN.290, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
6. Wilhelm Miller, "The fascinating art of making vistas" in Country Life in America 23, no. 5 (March 1913): 35-38.
7. Historic Building Detail: LEN.166, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
8. Christopher Hail, Cambridge Buildings and Architects, 2003. Accessed November 18, 2024.
9. Bainbridge Bunting, Harvard: An Architectural History (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985): 321.
10. Susan J. Montgomery and Roger G. Reed, Phillips Academy Andover: An Architectural Tour (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000): 51-55.
11. Historic Gate Detail: BOS.9271, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
12. Engineering Record (January 21, 1905): 43.
13. The American Architect and Building News (October 27, 1906): vi.
14. Historic Building Detail: NAD.315, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
15. Historic Building Detail: BRN.80, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
16. Keith N. Morgan, Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed and contributors, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, ed. Keith N. Morgan (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009): 362-363.
17. Keith N. Morgan, Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed and contributors, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, ed. Keith N. Morgan (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009): 362-363.
18. Historic Building Detail: BOS.4206, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
19. Historic Building Detail: CAM.1317, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
20. Historic Building Detail: CAM.1318, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
21. Historic Building Detail: EST.22, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
22. American Contractor (January 22, 1921):, 43.
23. Bridgemen's Magazine (February 1921): 98.
24. Susan J. Montgomery and Roger G. Reed, Phillips Academy Andover: An Architectural Tour (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000): 33-34.
25. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Annual Report of the Art Commission for the Year Ending November 30, 1923 (Boston: Wright & Potter, 1924)
26. Susan J. Montgomery and Roger G. Reed, Phillips Academy Andover: An Architectural Tour (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000): 17-18.
27. Historic Building Detail: BRD.78, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
28. Historic Building Detail: BRD.249, Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System, no date. Accessed November 19, 2024.
29. Bainbridge Bunting, Harvard: An Architectural History (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985): 322.
30. Keith N. Morgan, Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed and contributors, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, ed. Keith N. Morgan (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009): 363.
31. Keith N. Morgan, Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed and contributors, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, ed. Keith N. Morgan (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009): 516-517.
32. Keith N. Morgan, Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed and contributors, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, ed. Keith N. Morgan (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009): 193.
33. Keith N. Morgan, Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed and contributors, Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, ed. Keith N. Morgan (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009): 484.
34. William H. Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island, ed. Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004): 99.
35. Jeffrey A. Harris, "Guy Lowell" in A Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Maine 7 (Maine Citizens for Historic Preservation, 1995)
36. Stephen J. Roper, Pawtucket, Rhode Island: Statewide Historical Preservation Report P-PA-1, ed. David Chase and Bernard Mendillo (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1978): 28.
37. Bryant F. Tolles Jr. and Carolyn K. Tolles, New Hampshire Architecture: An Illustrated Guide (Lebanon: University Press of New England, 1979): 208.
38. Bryant F. Tolles Jr. and Carolyn K. Tolles, New Hampshire Architecture: An Illustrated Guide (Lebanon: University Press of New England, 1979): 195-196.
39. "A house at Lake George" in Architectural Review (January 1904): 46-48.
40. Gale J. Halm and Mary H. Sharp, Lake George (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2000): 81-82.
41. Real Estate Record and Builders Guide (March 4, 1905): 461.
42. Real Estate Record and Builders Guide (December 21, 1901): 889.
43. American Contractor (January 2, 1915): 54.
44. Charles Phelps Cushing, "The Piping Rock Club," Country Life, February 1920, 49.
45. Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker, The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009): 84-87 and 271.
46. Stone, September 1915, 488.
47. "The Architectural Design for a County Court House," Engineering News, April 17 1913,806.
48. "New York County Court House, New York City," Architecture and Building, March 1927, 69-71.
49. Real Estate Record and Builders Guide, July 12 1902, 47.
50. Randall Gabrielan, Rumson: Shaping a Superlative Suburb (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 1996): 136.
51. Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, Buildings of Mississippi (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021): 82-84.
52. Cite error: The named reference June was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
53. David Gebhard and Robert Winter, A Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles and Southern California (Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1977): 407.
54. Mark C. Vinson, "Lowell Observatory," SAH Archipedia, no date. Accessed November 18, 2024.
55. Kathryn Bishop Eckert, Buildings of Michigan (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012): 114-115.