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Guy Lowell

Biographical InformationGuy Lowell was well known nineteenth century architect born into the prominent Lowell family of Boston in 1870. He studied at Harvard University graduating in 1892. He then continued his education studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his degree in 1894. Lowell then traveled to Paris where he studied and received a diploma from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1899.

Returning to the United States he began his own practice in 1899 which was so successful he opened an additional office in New York City in 1906. Notable commissions include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as well as buildings for Harvard University. He was he nephew of Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell who commissioned him to design the President’s House at Harvard.

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Floyd, Margaret Henderson. Architecture after Richardson: Regionalism before Modernism--Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow in Boston and Pittsburgh. Chicago: U of Chicago in Association with the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1994. Print.
Russell, Benjamin F.W. "The Works of Guy Lowell." The Architectural Review, Volume XIII, No.2, February, 1906, 14-40.
Hale, Herbert D. "Recent Buildings at Harvard University." The Architectural Review, June 1901, p.65-70.