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Lowell

Lowell is a city in about 40 minutes northwest of . With over 115,000 residents, it's the fifth largest city in Massachusetts, and has an important historical background. It was the first planned industrial city in the United States.
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  • Type: City with 116,000 residents
  • Description: city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “East Chelmsford, Massachusetts”, “Lowell, MA”, and “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Postal codes: 01850-01854

Places of Interest

Highlights include Whistler House Museum of Art and Tsongas Center.

Museum
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The is the birthplace of painter and etcher James McNeill Whistler. It is located at 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA, and is open as a museum displaying works from the museum collection and shows by artist members.

Stadium
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at UMass Lowell is a multi-purpose facility owned by the University of Massachusetts Lowell and located in Lowell, Massachusetts. The arena was opened on January 27, 1998, and dedicated to the memory of the late Paul Tsongas, prominent Lowell native and U.S. senator.

College
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The , formerly the United States Post Office is a historic at 50 Kearney Square in Lowell, Massachusetts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dracut and City Hall Historic District.

Town
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DRAY-kət is a town in , , United States. At the 2020 census, the town's population was 32,617, making it the second most populous town in Massachusetts with an open town meeting system of governance.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, bound roughly by Broadway, Colburn, and Kirk streets. The centerpiece of the district is the Richardsonian Romanesque City Hall, built in 1893 to a design by Merrill & Cutler, with its 180-foot clock tower.

Neighborhood
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The of Lowell, Massachusetts, encompasses the city's South Common and the various public, religious, and private residential buildings that flank its borders.

Lowell

Latitude
42.6414° or 42° 38′ 29″ north
Longitude
-71.3085° or 71° 18′ 31″ west
Population
116,000
Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US LOE
Open location code
87JCJMRR+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158804130
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4942618
Wiki­data ID
Q49162
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Lowell” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Albanian: “Lowell”
  • Arabic: “لوويل”
  • Armenian: “Լոուել”
  • Asturian: “Lowell”
  • Azerbaijani: “Louell”
  • Bashkir: “Лоуэлл”
  • Basque: “Lowell”
  • Belarusian: “Лоўэл”
  • Bengali: “লোয়েল, ম্যাসাচুসেটস”
  • Bengali: “লোয়েল”
  • Breton: “Lowell”
  • Bulgarian: “Лоуъл”
  • Catalan: “Lowell”
  • Cebuano: “Lowell”
  • Central Kurdish: “لۆوێڵ”
  • Chechen: “Ловелл”
  • Chinese: “洛厄尔”
  • Chinese: “洛厄爾”
  • Chinese: “羅威爾”
  • Cornish: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Cornish: “Lowell”
  • Czech: “Lowell”
  • Dagbani: “Lowell”
  • Danish: “Lowell”
  • Dutch: “Lowell, MA”
  • Dutch: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Dutch: “Lowell”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوويل”
  • Esperanto: “Lowell”
  • Estonian: “Lowell”
  • Finnish: “Lowell”
  • French: “Lowell”
  • Georgian: “ლოუელი”
  • German: “Lowell”
  • Gilaki: “لؤول (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “لؤول”
  • Greek: “Λόουελ”
  • Gujarati: “લોવેલ”
  • Haitian: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Lowell”
  • Hebrew: “לוול”
  • Hindi: “लॉवेल”
  • Hungarian: “Lowell”
  • Ido: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Ido: “Lowell”
  • Iloko: “Lowell”
  • Indonesian: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Indonesian: “Lowell”
  • Irish: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Irish: “Lowell”
  • Italian: “Lowell”
  • Japanese: “ローウェル”
  • Kannada: “ಲೋವೆಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Лауэлл”
  • Khmer: “ក្រុងឡូវែល រដ្ឋម៉ាស្សាឈូស៊ែត”
  • Kirghiz: “Лауэлл”
  • Korean: “로웰”
  • Ladin: “Lowell”
  • Latvian: “Louela”
  • Latvian: “Lovela”
  • Lithuanian: “Louelis”
  • Lithuanian: “Lowell”
  • Macedonian: “Лоуел”
  • Malagasy: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Lowell”
  • Malay: “Lowell”
  • Marathi: “लॉवेल”
  • Mazanderani: “لوول (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “لوول”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lowell”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lowell”
  • Norwegian: “Lowell”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lowell”
  • Persian: “لوول، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “لوول”
  • Piemontese: “Lowell”
  • Polish: “Lowell”
  • Portuguese: “Lowell”
  • Romanian: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Lowell”
  • Russian: “Лоуэлл”
  • Scots: “Lowell”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lowell”
  • Serbian: “Лоуел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lowell”
  • Silesian: “Lowell”
  • Sinhala: “ලෝවෙල්”
  • Slovak: “Lowell”
  • Slovenian: “Lowell”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لوول، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Lowell (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Lowell”
  • Swahili: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Lowell”
  • Swedish: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Lowell”
  • Tagalog: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Tagalog: “Lowell”
  • Tamil: “லோவல்”
  • Tatar: “Ловелл”
  • Telugu: “లోవెల్”
  • Thai: “โลว์เอลล์”
  • Thai: “โลเวลล์”
  • Turkish: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Lowell”
  • Ukrainian: “Ловелл”
  • Ukrainian: “Лоуелл”
  • Urdu: “لوویل، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “لوویل”
  • Uzbek: “Lowell”
  • Venetian: “Lowell”
  • Vietnamese: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Lowell”
  • Volapük: “Lowell”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lowell”
  • Welsh: “Lowell, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Lowell”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛厄尔 (马萨诸塞州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛厄尔（马萨诸塞州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛厄尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅威爾”

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