| has gloss | eng: Lowell House is one of the twelve undergraduate residential houses at Harvard University, facing Mount Holyoke Street between the Harvard Yard and the Charles River. The house is nominally named for the Lowell family, though an ornate ALL woven into ironwork above the main gate discreetly alludes more specifically to Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Harvard's president at the time of construction. Its majestic neo-Georgian design, centered on two landscaped courtyards, received the 1938 Harleston Parker Medal and might be considered the model for later Harvard houses nearby. Lowell House is simultaneously proximite to the Yard, to Harvard Square, and to other Harvard "River" houses, and its blue-capped belltower, visible for many miles, is a local landmark. |
