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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27UR_cherry-and-webb-building_Lowell-MA.html
One of several large department stores historically downtown, Cherry and Webb was located here since 1889 and in 1924, extensively reconstructed the building in early Art Deco style with polychromatic terra cotta. This building actually incorporat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27UQ_davis-block_Lowell-MA.html
Originally home to Wyman's Church that occupied a tall upper story over ground floor shops, the building was remodeled and converted to commercial use in 1879. Built by William Wyman, a local eccentric prone to ranting in church and at political e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27UP_bon-marche-building_Lowell-MA.html
Before suburban shopping malls began springing up in the mid-20th century, downtown anchor department stores like the Bon Marche sold almost every product a family needed. This store consisted of four interconnected buildings built in various Vict…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27UM_middlesex-safe-deposit-and-trust-company-building_Lowell-MA.html
Constructed after Palmer Street was cut through between Merrimack and Market streets in 1889, this building was originally home to a bank with private offices upstairs. Renaissance Revival in style, the building is notable for the delicate metal e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27U6_quiet-as-the-grave_Lowell-MA.html
In 1864, the Lowell Daily Courier reported that "all the cotton manufactories of any importance in this city have been quiet as the grave."
The outbreak of the Civil War severed the supply of slave-produced cotton. Many of Lowell's corporations g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27U5_evolution-of-a-millyard_Lowell-MA.html
The Boott Cotton Mills complex is one of the finest examples of mill architecture in the United States. The mill complex you see today resulted from many decades of expansion and adaption.
[Top left diagram]
1830s
Four mill buildings were const…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TZ_suffolk-mill_Lowell-MA.html
The original Suffolk Mill buildings, constructed in 1831, were razed and rebuilt during the idle business years of the Civil War. Only the 1831 counting house survives. The company merged with the Tremont Mills across Suffolk Street in 1871, and n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TP_blending-old-and-new_Lowell-MA.html
Wannalancit Mills blended the old with the new. Formed in the late 1920s, Wannalancit moved into the aging Suffolk Mills two decades later and adapted surplus machinery for the production of new types of fabrics—rayon, polyester, and acrylic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TO_in-the-shadow-of-the-mills_Lowell-MA.html
To the right stands a boardinghouse block built in 1837, for the Boott Cotton Mills workers. Dozens of company-owned boardinghouses served as home for the thousands of young, single women - Lowell's "mill girls."
This block was one of eight owned…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27TN_harnessing-waterpower_Lowell-MA.html
Boott Dam
Beneath the gatehouse to your left is a dam that controls the level of water in the Eastern canal. When the water is high, the excess spills into the Merrimack Wasteway and returns to the Merrimack River.
Booth Penstock
Built in 1846,…