2114 Lowell Park Rd., Dixon, Illinois. County/parish: Lee.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 08, 2006. NRIS 06000680.
Part of Dixon Parks MPS (NRIS 64500953).
12 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 3 contributing structures. 4 contributing objects.
Lowell Park is a 200-acre municipal park located along the Rock River in northern Dixon, Illinois. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) for its significance in American landscape design, specifically as an exemplar of the Prairie Style park movement.
The park's NRHP listing is attributed to Criterion C (Design/Construction) as the work of a master landscape architect, Ossian Cole Simonds. Simonds' design emphasized the park's natural scenery by utilizing native plantings and respecting the existing hydrology and topography, establishing it as a "crown jewel" of the Dixon park system.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28891311