• An overview of the founding and construction of the House, a chronology of its Masters, and notes on the members of the Lowell family and on some of the House traditions are found on the Welcome page.

• Our House Archivist, Dr. Charles U. Lowe ’42, has written two detailed historical essays: How Harvard Acquired the Land on which Lowell House Was Built and How Did the Russian Bells Get to Lowell House? Parts One and Two.

• Dr. Lowe has also collected and transcribed a substantial volume of documents from the Harvard Archives pertaining to the establishment of Lowell House, available here as The History of Lowell House (PDF, 15 MB).

• For an early history of the Lowell House bells, read The Lowell House Bells, an essay by Mason Hammond ’25, the first Senior Tutor of Lowell House and later the Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature.