1. Guy Lowell, was an American architect and landscape architect.
11 Facts About Guy Lowell
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Guy Lowell graduated from Noble's Classical School in 1888 and from Harvard College in 1892, and received his degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894.
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Guy Lowell then studied landscape and horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and architectural history and landscape architecture in the atelier of Jean-Louis Pascal at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with diplome in 1899.
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Guy Lowell's commissions included large public, academic, and commercial buildings, as well as many distinctive residences, country estates, and formal gardens.
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Guy Lowell was the architect and landscape architect for the first Charles River dam, completed in 1910, which transformed the tidal river into the Charles River Basin.
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Guy Lowell designed five structures on the dam: the Upper and Lower Lock Gate Houses, the Stable, the Boat House, and an open pavilion.
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Guy Lowell is perhaps most recognized for his design of two public buildings: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the New York State Supreme Court building in New York City.
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Guy Lowell made a name for himself as a landscape architect.
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Guy Lowell founded the short-lived, but influential, landscape architecture program at MIT.
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Guy Lowell published several books, including: American Gardens, Smaller Italian Villas and Farmhouses, and More Small Italian Villas and Farmhouses.
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Guy Lowell died suddenly in the Madeira Islands of Portugal on February 4,1927.