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Lowell House

The Lowell House Bells Homepage

he Lowell House bells, a collection of 17 Russian bells, were given by Charles Crane as a gift to the house in 1930. The bells originally came from the St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow.

The bells are rung every weekend, on Sunday afternoons from 1 pm to 1:30 pm, and anyone may ring. To get to the bell tower, just keep walking up stairs in F-entry until you get a door with a padlock on it; if it's unlocked, head on up, otherwise just wait a few minutes and a Klappermeister should be there to open it up.


The St. Danilov Monastery in Moscow (source)

Lowell House,
Cambridge, MA
Lowell House Bells History by House Master Diana Eck -- Fall 2008
Lowell House Bell Events.
Danilovsky Monastery's website on the Return of the Bells.
Visit the Virtual Bell Tower and ring the Lowell House bells on your computer (requires JAVA).
Read our Questions and Answers about the bells.
Read How Did the Russian Bells Get to Lowell House? Parts One and Two, an essay by Dr.Charles U. Lowe, Harvard College '42, a current member of the Lowell House Senior Common Room.
Read The Lowell House Bells, an essay by Mason Hammond, Harvard College '25, the first Senior Tutor of Lowell House and later the Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, for an early history of the Lowell House bells.
View pictures of the bells.
See the archive of Harvard Crimson articles on the bells, the Danilovsky Monastery, and the visiting delegation.
Return to the Lowell House webpage.
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