Charles N. Lowrie

Lincoln Park
West Hudson Park

Charles Nassau Lowrie (April 8, 1869 – September 18, 1939) was an American landscape architect and designer. He was one of eleven founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899 and was active in the City Beautiful Movement.

Born in Warriors Mark, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, he graduated of Yale College's Sheffield Scientific School in 1891.[1]

Lowrie was the landscape architect for the Hudson County, New Jersey Park Commission for thirty years and designed several parks for the county's park system, including Lincoln Park and Pershing Field in Jersey City, Stephen R. Gregg Hudson County Park in Bayonne, Columbus Park in Hoboken and West Hudson Park.[2][3]

He was a member of the New York's Municipal Art Society. He was in charge of landscaping Red Hook Housing Project in Brooklyn. He was on the 1939 New York World's Fair staff.

Lowrie designed the 20th century master plan for University of Connecticut's campus in Storrs, Connecticut.[4][5] He made the first master plan developed for University Park, Pennsylvania State University.[6] He was also involved in city planning for Columbus, Ohio[7] Lowrie made preliminary plans for a competition for a Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC, which was eventually never built.

Some of his professional papers are archived at Cornell.[8]

He died in New York and was buried in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic753413.files/11_Landscape%20Architecture%20City%20Planning/Newton_Design.pdf
  2. ↑ "Pershing Field". Jersey City A to Z. New Jersey City University. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  4. ↑ http://www.uconnarboretum.uconn.edu/content/RUDY_FAVRETTI_UConn_Great_Lawn_II.pdf
  5. ↑ https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/88003202_text
  6. ↑ "Penn State University Park Campus History Collection - University Libraries". Retrieved 23 March 2017.
  7. ↑ https://columbus.gov/uploadedFiles/Columbus/Departments/Development/Planning_Division/Document_Library/Library_Documents/PDFs/Columbus%201908%20Plan_Compressed.pdf
  8. ↑ "Charles Nassau Lowrie (1869-1939)". Archived from the original on 12 September 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
  9. ↑ "Charles Nassau Lowrie (1869 - 1939) - Find A Grave Memorial". Retrieved 13 February 2016.
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