Unveiling Lowell House renewal
Renewal will begin this spring for Lowell House, built in 1930 and later named for the family of Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, who created the College’s House-based residential system. The project, which reimagines the neo-Georgian building for the needs of its 21st-century community of students, tutors, and faculty, is expected to take two years. The multifaceted project will preserve the tradition-rich House, which counts novelist John Updike, actors Natalie Portman and Matt Damon, and former Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter among its alumni, while upgrading spaces to better support advising students, and to allow for more amenities and better accessibility. Central to the renewal is establishment of Otto Hall, named in recognition of a gift from Alexander Otto ’90, M.B.A. ’94. The award-winning architectural firm KieranTimberlake designed Otto Hall, which faces Mount Auburn Street. The entryway will connect students and faculty with ease to the second-floor library and the new...