I am looking for images of the former Lowell Boston and Maine train station (my family always called it the depot). The reason is I'd like to build a model of it and want to include as many details as possible.

Also, information on its exact location would be great -street intersections? I think it was Thorndike Steet and Middlesex Street. Is that correct? I was pretty young the last time I was at the older station.

Please email your info to michaellsr@juno.com.

Thanks.

There is a Postcard (Turn of the 20th Century)on Ebay under B&M Railroad. You can try to buy it or print it to get a picture.

Contact the Walker Transportation Collection of the Beverly(Mass.)Historical Society. Curators Richard Symmes or David Fletcher are available any Wednesday Evening between 7pm and 9pm at 978-922-1186. You can also visit the Walker Collection when it is open on Wednesday evenings, we have over 60,000 photographs on file of New England Transportation, many of them we have the negatives for. The bulk of the collection is Boston & Maine and we have photos of just about every station that ever existed on the B&M, I'm sure a good sized station such as Lowell has more than one image on file.

This was a big new story in Lowell Ma last winter.

It was part of the national Park Open House of Restoration Properties. You cna try the National Park at Lowell ma or the Lowell Sun or just drive up there and look at it.

Go to Middlesex Community College as well, as they should have something on it. However I did not currently see a thing about it on their web site. They filmed a movie on the street in April 2008 (with Jennifer Garner), {....Lowell, MA is the New Hollywood · Ricky Gervais is shooting his movie, This Side of the Truth, in downtown Lowell, Massachusetts}


Former B&M Railroad Depot

Built in 1876, the Former Boston & Maine Railroad Depot, known locally as the Rialto, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Lowell, MA Downtown Historic District. The 11,200 square foot building was built of brick and granite in the high-Victorian Gothic sts.le and sits on a corner block welcoming visitors into downtown Lowell. The building was assigned to the U.S. Department of Education under the Public Benefit Conveyance (PBC) program, to be awarded to Middlesex County College (MCC). In 1995, MCC was awarded the Lowell Post Office! Federal Building as part of a PBC and renovated a portion of it into library and classroom space, and plans to convert the a section of the building into a performing arts center. Eventually, the building will house MCC;s entire arts program, combining classroom and performance spaces with exhibit space and a small auditorium theater.
Location: 240 Central Street, Lowell, MA
Date of Conveyance: March 2008