{"nrhp_refnum":"82001958","name":"Lowell School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"25 Lowell St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.37523089700005,"lon":-71.13350164299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story frame school building at 25 Lowell Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1883 for the City of Cambridge and designed by James and George Fogerty. It now houses offices.","why_significant":"It is described as the only surviving frame school in Cambridge. It was designed by the father-son architects James and George Fogerty, prolific Cambridge designers. Its design reflects 1880s advances in educational policy and school design, such as graded classes, better sanitation and heating, and larger school grounds.","narrative":"Built in 1883 at 25 Lowell Street in Cambridge, the Lowell School is a two-story, rectangular frame building on a brick foundation. It has a low-pitched hip roof with a projecting cornice carried on paired brackets. Apart from those brackets, the exterior is plain, a restraint considered appropriate for educational buildings and also chosen for economy. The city paid $12,943 for land, construction and furnishings. James and George Fogerty, a father-son team of architects who designed schools, firehouses, factories and more than 100 Cambridge houses, produced the design. The school is recorded as the only surviving frame school in Cambridge. Its layout reflects 1880s changes in education, when classes were graded and each had its own room, lower grades were separated from high school, heating and sanitation improved, and school grounds grew to allow recreation space. The building is now used as offices and is owned by the City of Cambridge.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"James and George Fogerty","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Present use is offices; the building is owned by the City of Cambridge and is unaltered and unmoved according to the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.300578-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/82/7905/63790582/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/82001958.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001958/93d4274762-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82001958/93d4274762-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Daderot","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowell_School_-_25_Lowell_Street,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4191.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Daderot</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lowell_School_-_25_Lowell_Street,_Cambridge,_MA_-_IMG_4191.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790582","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_School_(Cambridge,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6693259"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/lowell-school-82001958/"}