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World War I briefly improved the situation, but from 1926 to 1929, most of the rest of the companies, including the Lowell Machine Shop (which had become the Saco-Lowell Shops) left the city: The Great Depression had come to Lowell early. In 1930, Lowell's population was slightly over 100,000, down from a high of 112,000 a decade earlier.
With two primary campuses located in Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell General Hospital offers a full range of medical and surgical services for patients. Lowell General Hospital is a member of the Voluntary Hospitals of America. [citation needed] Lowell General is affiliated with Tufts Children's Hospital in Boston. [1]
These are the National Registered Historic Places listings in Lowell, Massachusetts. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 31, 2025.
The Varnum Building was a historic mixed-use commercial and residential building in Lowell, Massachusetts.It was a four-story wood-frame structure with an angled front at the corner of Bridge and Third Streets, topped by a square cupola with bellcast pyramidal roof.
Lowell (/ ˈ l oʊ ə l /) is a city in Massachusetts, United States.Alongside Cambridge, it is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County.With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, [3] it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of the last census, and the third most populous in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. [4]
1905 - Tewksbury's Wigginville neighborhood annexed to the City of Lowell. [27] 1908 - Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church built. 1909 - Lowell's Merrimack Valley Course hosted a motor racing festival that featured four AAA-sanctioned championship car races. [28] 1910 - Population: 106,294. [7] 1911 - Colonial Theatre opens. [25]
The mixture of street and high culture that prevailed at the time was captured by a notice published in the Asheville Citizen, March 30, 1900: "Don't expectorate on the playhouse floor if you ...
In 1851 the area was annexed to the city. A school was built near this site in the 1830s by Joseph Bradley Varnum and his son, Benjamin Franklin Varnum, who owned a boarding house on the site of this building. When built in 1857, this school was the city's first elementary school in which students were separated by grade.