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The Lowell Historic Preservation District is a historic district created by the legislation establishing Lowell National Historic Park. The district encompasses an area of more than 500 acres (200 ha), including virtually all of the historically significant resources associated with the industrial history of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts .
Lowell recruited the Olmsted Brothers, a nationally prominent architecture firm formed by the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, to provide a design for the park; their design emphasized the park's natural scenery by ensuring that its manmade features complemented rather than distracted from it. The park opened to the public in 1907, though its ...
Lowell National Historic Park was established by the Lowell Establishment Act in 1978. Lowell National Historical Park was established due to its significant cultural and historical sites and structures. This significance of these cultural and historical sites and structures symbolized aspects of the Industrial Revolution.
Andover Street Historic District: Andover Street Historic District: June 2, 2000 : 245–834 Andover St., 569, 579 E. Merrimack St. 3: Belvidere Hill Historic District: Belvidere Hill Historic District: May 26, 1995
In 1850, Marsac sold his land to Able Avery, who platted the area. Arba Richards and Richard Wickham, owners of what is now the west side of present-day Lowell, followed suit in 1854, naming their new settlement "Lowell." Both Dansville and Lowell existed side-by-side until 1861, when they merged and incorporated as the village of Lowell. [2]
English: Top of the Rock Golf Course Limestone Pinnacles (excavated to a depth of 60 m in areas), Branson, Missouri, USA. Date: 18 March 2019: Source: Own work: Author:
The Canal System and the Gatehouse were designated a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the ASCE in 1984 [2] and a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the ASME in 1985 [3] and are part of Lowell National Historical Park. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and declared a National Historic Landmark the ...
The district extends north, west and south from the park for a little more than one block, and consists of modest-sized houses on small lots (c. 5,000 square feet (460 m 2)). [ 2 ] The area was created as a residential subdivision in 1831 by the brothers John and Thomas Nesmith, with the purchase of 150 acres (61 ha).