Location: Lowell, MA
Client: Lowell Historic Preservation Commission, the National Park Service
Team: William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.
Awards: Federal Design Achievement Award for the Lowell Performance Pavilion, 1995
Photography: Alex MacLean, Steve Rosenthal, Jerry Howard, Christopher Barnes

Established by Congress in 1978, as part of the National Park in Lowell, the park commemorates the women who worked in the mills in the 19th century and offers views of the Boott Mills, the Eastern Canal, and an original boarding house. The park serves as an outdoor performing arts center, a site for cultural festivals, a green space in the heart of the City, and is also a part of the 5.5-mile City-wide canalway system.

Brown, Richardson + Rowe’s design consists of a forecourt for the Mogan Cultural Center, terraced lawns and seating steps, and a pavilion which serves as both a theatre and trolley stop. As part of the design team, William Rawn Associates, Architects designed the pavilion to evoke the characteristic ironwork of Lowell. Over 100 feet long, its roof is made of metal grill work and covered with wisteria vines. The client and design team received a Federal Design Achievement Award in 1995 for the work completed on the Lowell Performance Pavilion in Boarding House Park. The Park was also published in the October 1991 Architectural Record.