Lowell House was a fraternity house at the University of California, Sunnydale. It was originally known as the Lowell Home for Children, a home Genevieve Holt ran for up to 40 orphans.[1]
The Initiative secret research lab was built below the Lowell House, and many agents lived in the frat house, including Riley Finn, Forrest Gates, and Graham Miller.[2]
History[]
From 1949 until 1960, Genevieve Holt ran the Lowell Home for Children, a home for up to 40 wayward teenagers and adolescents who are runaways, juvenile delinquents, and emotionally disturbed teenagers. According to her, Ms. Holt gave them hugs and praises when the orphans were "good" but punished them when they were "dirty." She considered the girls vainer than the boys of the house after she caught them preening their hair in the mirror, so she had "the temptation" of their hair hacked and cut off. When she considered the teenagers "the most unclean," she tended to "baptize" them by holding their heads underwater.[1]
In 2000, the Lowell Home for Children had become a fraternity house. While Buffy Summers and Riley Finn were having sex in his bedroom, a poltergeist born out of the orphans' negatively raw emotions and sexually repressed energy kept manipulating them into doing it. The poltergeist began haunting the house and those present in the ongoing party.[1]
Manifestations included the house becoming cold; the fire in the fireplace burning a fraternity brother; a wall provoking orgasm to those who touched it; Julie hacking her hair out; Tara separating from Willow with disgusted remarks; Willow having a vision of a drowning boy; the bottle from a spin the bottle game exploding; earthquakes causing the house to tremble; Graham quoted a Bible verse while possessed; Anya having a vision of a running girl; books flying at Xander, Anya, Tara, and Willow; vines growing within the house; and Xander being dragged underwater.[1]
With Giles's help, Tara and Willow performed an exorcism ritual in their dorm at Stevenson Hall. Meanwhile, Anya and Xander fought to reenter the house and finally got to open the door to Riley's bedroom, interrupting Riley and Buffy and ending the haunting.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
- The exterior shots of the building are from the Rives Mansion at 1130 Westchester Place, Los Angeles. Designated Los Angeles Historical Cultural Monument #661, the mansion was built by the architect Alfred Rosenheim,[3] who also designed the Rosenheim Mansion used as the Alpha Delta house.
Appearances[]
Canonical[]
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 4 | |||||||||||
| "The Freshman" Absent |
"Living Conditions" Absent |
"The Harsh Light of Day" Absent |
"Fear, Itself" Absent |
"Beer Bad" Absent |
"Wild at Heart" Absent |
"The Initiative" Appears |
"Pangs" Absent |
"Something Blue" Absent |
"Hush" Appears |
"Doomed" Absent | |
| "A New Man" Absent |
"The I in Team" Appears |
"Goodbye Iowa" Appears |
"This Year's Girl" Appears |
"Who Are You?" Appears |
"Superstar" Appears |
"Where the Wild Things Are" Appears |
"New Moon Rising" Appears |
"The Yoko Factor" Absent |
"Primeval" Appears |
"Restless" Absent | |
| Angel & Faith: Season 10 | |||||||||||
| Where the River Meets the Sea, Part 1 Absent |
Where the River Meets the Sea, Part 2 Absent |
Where the River Meets the Sea, Part 3 Absent |
Where the River Meets the Sea, Part 4 Absent |
Old Habits Absent |
Lost and Found, Part 1 Flashback |
Lost and Found, Part 2 Flashback |
Lost and Found, Part 3 Absent |
Lost and Found, Part 4 Absent |
Lost and Found, Part 5 Flashback | ||
| United, Part 1 Absent |
United, Part 2 Absent |
United, Part 3 Absent |
United, Part 4 Absent |
Fight or Flight Absent |
Those Who Can't Teach, Teach Gym, Part 1 Absent |
Those Who Can't Teach, Teach Gym, Part 2 Absent |
Those Who Can't Teach, Teach Gym, Part 3 Absent |
A Little More than Kin, Part 1 Absent |
A Little More than Kin, Part 2 Absent | ||
| A Tale of Two Families, Part 1 Absent |
A Tale of Two Families, Part 2 Absent |
A Tale of Two Families, Part 3 Absent |
A Tale of Two Families, Part 4 Absent |
A Tale of Two Families, Part 5 Absent | |||||||
Other[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Where the Wild Things Are"
- ↑ "The Initiative"
- ↑ "House Los Angeles." JamesEdition. Retrieved on November 10, 2024.