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Guy Lowell (August 6, 1870-February 4, 1927) was an American architect and landscape architect. He was the son of Mary Walcott (Goodrich) and Edward Jackson Lowell, and a member of Boston's well-known Lowell family. In this role as Percival Lowell's third cousin, became the sole trustee of the Lowell Observatory after his cousin's death. His combined practice of architecture and landscape design was perhaps sparked by his father-in-law, Charles Sprague Sargent, the first director of the Arnold Arboretum.

Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1892, and received his degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1894. He then studied landscape and horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and architectural history and landscape architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, with diplome in 1899. In the middle of these studies he married Henrietta Sargent on May 17, 1898.

Returning to the United States, Lowell opened his own practice in Boston. He was successful immediately. By 1906, he had opened a branch office in New York, and later split each week between New York and Boston. His commissions included large public, academic and commercial buildings, and many distinctive residences, country estates and formal gardens, as well as the Charles River esplanades in collaboration with Charles Eliot, but he is perhaps most famous for his design of two public buildings, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1906-09, plus later additions) and the New York County Courthouse on Foley Square in Manhattan (1912-14 and 1919-27), Lowell Lecture Hall at Harvard, and academic buildings at Phillips Andover Academy, Simmons College, and Brown University.

Lowell 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. Lowell died in the Madeira Islands.

Major buildings and gardens

1902 Lowell Lecture Hall, Harvard University
1904 Emerson Hall, Harvard University
1909 Boston Museum of Fine Arts
1912 Natirar
1913 New York State Supreme Courthouse
1913 Planting Fields Arboretum
1929 Grosse Pointe Yacht Club

Selected other buildings

1901 Tupper Hall (now part of Endicott College), Beverly, Massachusetts
1904 Spring Lawn, Kemble Street, Lenox, Massachusetts
1906 44 Boylston Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1907 Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
1911 President's House, Harvard University
1911 Piping Rock Clubhouse, Locust Valley, New York
1921 Community House, Hamilton, Massachusetts
1922 Fuller Memorial Bell Tower, Phillips Andover Academy
Tuck Library, 30 Park Street, Concord, New Hampshire
13 Follen Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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-'''Guy Lowell''' (1870-1927) was an American [[architect]] and [[landscape architect]]. He was a member of Boston's well-known [[Lowell family]], and in this role as [[Percival Lowell]]'s third cousin, became the sole trustee of the [[Lowell Observatory]] after his cousin's death. His combined practice of architecture and landscape design was perhaps sparked by his father-in-law, [[Charles Sprague Sargent]], the first director of the [[Arnold Arboretum]].
+'''Guy Lowell''' (August 6, 1870-February 4, 1927) was an American [[architect]] and [[landscape architect]]. He was the son of Mary Walcott (Goodrich) and Edward Jackson Lowell, and a member of Boston's well-known [[Lowell family]]. In this role as [[Percival Lowell]]'s third cousin, became the sole trustee of the [[Lowell Observatory]] after his cousin's death. His combined practice of architecture and landscape design was perhaps sparked by his father-in-law, [[Charles Sprague Sargent]], the first director of the [[Arnold Arboretum]].
-Lowell graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1892, and received his degree in architecture from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1894. He then studied landscape and horticulture at the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]], and architectural history and landscape architecture at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris, with diplome in 1899.
+Lowell graduated from [[Harvard College]] in 1892, and received his degree in architecture from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] in 1894. He then studied landscape and horticulture at the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]], and architectural history and landscape architecture at the [[École des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris, with diplome in 1899. In the middle of these studies he married Henrietta Sargent on May 17, 1898.
 Returning to the United States, Lowell opened his own practice in [[Boston]]. He was successful immediately. By 1906, he had opened a branch office in New York, and later split each week between New York and Boston. His commissions included large public, academic and commercial buildings, and many distinctive residences, country estates and formal gardens, as well as the [[Charles River]] esplanades in collaboration with [[Charles Eliot]], but he is perhaps most famous for his design of two public buildings, the [[Boston Museum of Fine Arts]] (1906-09, plus later additions) and the [[New York County Courthouse]] on [[Foley Square]] in [[Manhattan]] (1912-14 and 1919-27), Lowell Lecture Hall at Harvard, and academic buildings at [[Phillips Andover Academy]], [[Simmons College]], and [[Brown University]].
-Lowell 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.
+Lowell 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. Lowell died in the [[Madeira Islands]].
 ==Major buildings and gardens==