Tyler Park Historic District

Tyler Park Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the Lowell Highlands, laid out around a small public park designed in 1893 by Charles Eliot of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot. The park's 2.74 acres still follow the original plan, which works with a hollow, rocky outcroppings and mature trees. Around it stand mostly wood-frame single- and two-family houses built between about 1890 and 1924, in Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Bungalow and other styles, along with a few older farmhouse-era dwellings and the 1897 Pine Street School by Harry Prescott Graves. Most houses were built by local builders, and their consistent quality gives the area its cohesion. The district was listed because it shows how Lowell's middle classes moved to streetcar suburbs on higher ground at the turn of the twentieth century. It represents community planning and development, social history and architecture, with a period of significance from 1893 to 1938.