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Lowell Memorial Park Historic Landscape Rehabilitation Preliminary Design March 18, 2019 Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Charles D. Baker Lt Governor Karyn E. Polito Energy and Environmental Secretary Matthew A. Beaton Department

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Lowell Memorial Park Historic Landscape Rehabilitation

Preliminary Design March 18, 2019

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Governor

Charles D. Baker

Lt Governor

Karyn E. Polito

Energy and Environmental Secretary

Matthew A. Beaton

Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner

Leo Pierre Roy

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DCR Mission

To protect, promote and enhance our common wealth of natural, cultural and recreational resources for the well-being of all.

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Purpose of the Meeting

  • Presentation of assessment

and preliminary recommendations for landscape rehabilitation

  • Review options for walls and

pathways in Southern Section

  • Hear public comments

Northern Section Southern Section

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Waverley Oaks, Waltham (1896) courtesy DCR Archives

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What is Lowell Memorial Park?

Elmwood Early Metropolitan Park Olmsted Brothers design

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What is Lowell Memorial Park?

Historic Site Elmwood

– Oliver – Gerry – Lowell

National Historic Landmark

From 1877 City of Cambridge map, Franklin View Co. (Courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library)

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What is Lowell Memorial Park?

Memorial to James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

  • Fireside Poet
  • Abolitionist
  • Ambassador
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What is Lowell Memorial Park?

Part of Nation’s First Regional Park System

  • Metropolitan Park

System of Greater Boston

  • National Register of

Historic Places

1900 Atlas of Middlesex Co. (Courtesy of Cambridge Historical Commission)

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What is Lowell Memorial Park?

Work of a noted designer – The Olmsted Brothers

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Project Background

  • 2012 DCR listening session
  • 2014 Public Meeting

– Cultural landscape Report – Wall Assessment

  • 2015 Mt Auburn/Fresh Pond

Parkway Traffic Study

  • 2016 Wall Repairs in Big Lowell
  • 2019 Partnership grant with City of

Cambridge for Landscape Rehab Design (KZLA hired)

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Questions & Answers

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Additional Information

For more information: www.mass.gov/dcr/past-public-meetings If you have comments or suggestions on this project: Submit online: www.mass.gov/dcr/public-comment Write: Department of Conservation and Recreation Office of Public Outreach 251 Causeway Street, Suite 600 Boston, MA 02114 Deadline: April 2, 2019 Note: Public comments submitted to DCR may be posted on the DCR website in their entirety, and no information, including contact information, will be redacted. If you wish to subscribe to a DCR general information or project-related listserv: contact DCR’s Office of Community Relations at 617-626-4973 or Mass.Parks@state.ma.us.