Visitors shouldn’t miss Doors Open XTRAs, special opportunities to enhance your Doors Open Lowell experience through interaction with design professionals or other special building-affiliated events.  Doors Open XTRAs are free and no preregistration is required.  However, building owners may reserve the right to limit attendance during these times on a first come, first serve basis.

 Doors Open Lowell 2009 XTRAs schedule

**Saturday, May 16**

11:00am - noon

Culture & Commerce

Mack Plaza

Join COOL’s LZ Nunn for this walking tour of downtown museums, galleries, public art, cultural sites, and local establishments.

11:00am – 12:30pm

Underground Lowell

Boott Cotton Mills Museum Event Center, 2nd floor

115 John Street

Lowell National Historical Park Ranger Dave Redding will bring to light elements of the Lowell Canal System rarely seen such as underground raceways, turbines, and other hidden waterway features during this slide lecture.

11:00am – 2:00pm

Trolley Gathering

Mack Plaza/Dutton Street

Toot, toot!  Climb aboard all of the Lowell National Historical Park’s trolleys and Seashore's historic "Desire" car as they line up together for the first time ever and hear from those who operate and maintain these cars.

Boston & Maine Railcar

Mack Plaza/Dutton Street

Visit this period railcar and learn more about railroad history with the B& M Railroad Historical Society.

Davis & Sargent Building
Nobis Engineering, Inc.

585 Middlesex Street

Meet architect Michael Viveiros and learn how plans for the building’s rehabilitation to green LEED standards was accomplished.

12:30pm and 1:30pm

Masonic Temple

79 Dutton Street

Don’t miss the rare public showings of the Masons’ celestial lighting display in Grecian Hall.

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Merrimack Canal Gates Restoration

Swamp Locks @ Merrimack Canal

View an in-progress canal preservation project and learn how the massive Merrimack Canal Guard Gates are being restored with Lowell National Historical Park Chief of Maintenance, Ted Davis.

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Lowell Then & Now

Boott Cotton Mills Courtyard

115 John Street

Discover efforts to preserve historic buildings in Lowell during this downtown walking tour with Lowell National Historical Park architect Chuck Parrott .

2:30pm – 4:00pm

Early Lowell Trolley Route Walking Tour

Mack Plaza

Join a Lowell National Historical Park Ranger on this walking tour and discover one of Lowell’s early trolley routes along Merrimack Street.

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Perkins Place

Perkins Street  @ Cabot Street

Meet architects from Ganek Architects and see how plans for the mills’ rehabilitation were developed.

Spalding House

383 Pawtucket Street

Meet craftsmen from the “Window Woman” and learn about the house’s window restoration project.

Pawtucket Congregational Church

15 Mammoth Road

Come learn about the 1898 Cole church organ and see the church’s 1812 Revere Bell.

Allen House

Solomont Way @ Broadway Street (UMass Lowell South Campus)

Meet architect Jay Mason and learn about the building’s rehabilitation.

**Sunday, May 17**


2:30-4:00

The Acre and Western Canalway Walking Tour
Visitor Center

Join a LNHP Ranger on this walking tour and discover the historic Acre neighborhood and the newest section of the Western Canalway.

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