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lopes squareprovincetown, massachusetts
Provincetown is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Massachusetts, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. Located at the end of Cape Cod, the town was the first landing site for the Pilgrims, and has since been a haven for Portuguese fishermen, New York artists, and whale-watchers, sailors, beach-goers, and vacationers from all over the world. People arrive by bus, car and high-speed ferry from Boston to a central spot along the harbor, known as Lopes Square.

In 2003, the town asked Martha Lyon Landscape Architecture to prepare a master plan for the waterfront area including Memorial Park, Lopes Square, and a transportation center and the connections between them. The project's first phase, completed in 2005, revitalized Lopes Square with new curbing, paving, planting, seating, lighting and litter bins. A granite marker, inscribed and placed in the pavement, commemorates the historic Lopes Square anchor, seized from the sea in 1959 by the crew of the Cap'n Bill.

  • profile
    • introduction
    • awards
    • publications
    • partners
    • contact
  • portfolio
    • gather
      • provincetown public library
      • saratoga race course
      • lopes square
      • town green
      • stevens estate at osgood hill
      • northampton state hospital memorial park
      • spencer trask memorial & spirit of life
      • joseph simes house
      • Justice Edward Gourdin Veterans' Memorial Park
      • Asa Parlin House
      • Valentine Whitman House
    • stroll
      • fort allen park
      • elizabeth park
      • stark park
      • roseland park
      • greenwich parks
      • north park
      • smith academy park
      • binney park
      • Miantonomi Park
    • learn
      • emily dickinson museum
      • bellamy-ferriday house
      • oren sanborn house
      • faulkner homestead
      • wellfleet historical society & museum
      • hull family farm & homestead
      • roxbury heritage state park
      • Seward House Museum
      • Quarry Farm
      • Arlington Historic Resource Survey
      • Ten Broeck Mansion
    • remember
      • chapel cemetery
      • sleepy hollow cemetery
      • winthrop street cemetery
      • valley cemetery
      • grace church cemetery
      • wilbraham cemeteries
      • church on the hill burying ground
      • bridge street cemetery
      • charter street cemetery
      • ipswich old north burying ground
      • longmeadow cemetery
      • Proctor's Ledge Memorial
      • Mount Hope Cemetery
      • Jacob Cousins Memorial
      • Waterbury Riverside Cemetery
      • Greenlawn Cemetery
      • Evergreen Cemetery
      • God’s Little Acre
      • Sunderland Riverside Cemetery
      • Sand Banks/Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery
    • imagine
      • town of holden, MA
      • town of amherst, NH
      • downtown medfield, MA
      • town of amherst, MA
      • city of fall river, MA
      • town of kittery, ME
      • town of milton, MA
      • town of northfield, MA
      • Town of Medfield, MA
      • Town of Derry, NH

martha lyon landscape architecture, llc