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.

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Lowell At Your Doorstep

Corner of Dutton and Merrimack Streets

Discover this temporary public art sculpture created by the Revolving Museum’s teen artists with guidance from architect/artist William Turville and sculptor Joe MacFadzen, an interactive, inside-out homage to the buildings we all live our lives in comprised of recycled materials from Lowell.  This project is supported in part by a grant from the Lowell Cultural Council through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Saturday, May 15

11:00am – 2:00pm

Tenth Street School

57 Tenth Street

Meet architect Jay Mason and discover the design process behind the school’s rehabilitation for residential use.

Noon – 2:00pm

First Bloom Project

Moody Street Feeder Gatehouse

Merrimack Street @ Merrimack Canal

Learn about this National Park Foundation conservation education program that reaches out to urban youth in to teach about the science of native plants, encouraging them to protect the environment in America’s celebrated national parks and in their own backyards.

Noon – 5:00pm

Preservation Then & Now Exhibit

Boott Cotton Mills Museum/Boott Gallery

115 John Street

Don’t miss this new exhibit that chronicles two centuries of preservation history in New England and Lowell that is presented in partnership with Historic New England.

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Lowell Then & Now Tour

Boott Cotton Mills Courtyard

115 John Street

Discover preservation efforts downtown during this walking tour with Lowell National Historical Park architect Chuck Parrott.

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Lofts at Perkins Park

39 Perkins Street

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

3:00pm – 6:00pm

Tremont Yard

1 Tremont Place

Underwater since the mid-19th century, discover these newly exposed historic subterranean waterpower features with former Lowell National Historical Park Ranger Dave Redding.

Pawtucket Gatehouse

School Street @ Merrimack River

Join the noted author of “Waterpower in Lowell”, Dr. Patrick Malone, in discovering the fascinating history of the landmark Pawtucket Gatehouse and other engineering achievements of 19th century industrial Lowell.

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.

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