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Item Title
Lowell City Hall, 407 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Middlesex County, MA
Location407 Merrimack Street,
Lowell, MA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS MA-1152
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-267).
Building/structure dates:
1893 initial construction
Significance: The Lowell City Hall replaced Old City Hall (226 Merrimack Street) as the home of the city government, and in so doing, it symbolized Lowell's evolution from a mill town to a modern city. In contrast to the small and inauspicious first municipal building (1830; see Section III E) -- the architecture of which reveals the town government's subordination to the mill interests in Lowell that tended to view the town government as merely an extension of their corporate structure -- the size and elaborate architecture of the Lowell City Hall (1893) clearly indicate that Lowell had emerged as a diverse and mature industrial city by the end of the nineteenth century and that Lowell's government had broken free of mill control. The Lowell City Hall is one of the finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in the Lowell region.
Related Names
Merrill, Otis A.
Cutler, Arthur S.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW FROM SOUTHEAST
2. GENERAL VIEW FORM SOUTHEAST
3. GENERAL VIEW FROM SOUTHWEST
4. MAIN ENTRANCE, SOUTH FACADE
5. VIEW OF STAIRWAY FROM FIRST FLOOR TO SECOND FLOOR LOOKING NORTHWEST
6. VIEW OF STAIRWAY FROM SECOND FLOOR (?) TO THIRD FLOOR (?)
7. FIREPLACE,CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER(?)
8. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER,NORTHWEST CORNER OF SECOND FLOOR, VIEW FROM NORTHEAST
9. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER, SECOND FLOOR, SOUTHWEST CORNER
10. ANTECHAMBER OF CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER, SECOND FLOOR, NORTHWEST CORNER OF BUILDING, VIEW TO NORTHWEST
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