If New England were a country, would mill towns like Lowell exist?
What would New England be without its mill towns? In what universe would mill towns like Lowell never have developed here?
Read MoreRyan W. Owen, Writer and Photographer
What would New England be without its mill towns? In what universe would mill towns like Lowell never have developed here?
Read MoreLowell’s New Block boardinghouse stood on Dutton Street for over 120 years before it fell to mid-century ‘progress’ in 1966.
Read MoreWhen it opened just before Memorial Day in 1959, Lowell’s Prince Grotto Restaurant promised big things. “New England’s finest Italian restaurant,” they said, catered to “those who know and appreciate fine foods elegantly served.” And for nearly thirty years, the Prince Grotto served fine Italian, American, and French cuisine from its well-hidden alcove down Carter […]
Read MoreNearly 160 years ago, Civil War General Benjamin Butler built Camp Chase on the site of the Lowell middle school that now bears his name.
Read MoreToday, we’re publishing our new guide to the history of Lowell’s neighborhoods! Get the link here.
Read MoreThere’s a witch in Lowell Cemetery, ‘they’ say. As the legend goes, when the bodice of her dress slips below her waist, her ghost roams the streets of Lowell.
Read MoreThat Harvard Brewery building stares at you, like it has a secret. Because it does. When you pull in to park at Lowell’s Target, those twelve little windows peer forward, each covered with corrugated sheet metal that’s been painted the color of pistachio ice cream. (Why?) That Harvard Brewery building has ghosts like anything that […]
Read MoreWhether you call it pop, tonic, soda, or just plain Coke, the soda fountain owes its modern form to one Gustavus D. Dows who ran a drugstore with his brother at 213 Central Street in Lowell in the mid 1850s.
Read MoreHave you ever stepped inside 530 Stevens Street? Within those walls that now house Lowell Catholic, there’s history.
Read MoreMaybe you love to stare into the faces of those captured in long-ago photographs and search for a lost image of a long-dead ancestor. Maybe you just like old photos. In our family, we’ve had an old group photograph from 1924 for … well, since it was taken in 1924. The story behind the photograph […]
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