Jackson Street, Lowell, MA (including Moulton Street and Mill #5, various years.)

December 2021, showing the Lowell Justice Center at the end. Below photo taken August 27, 2015.

Central Street and corner of Jackson Street.

August 27, 2017.

September 21, 2014.

December 4, 2021.

February 21, 2018. On the left, an office building, The Social Pup business, Moulton Street, parking lot, a side street to the garage, Marston St., and Mill #5. On the right, the long Counting House Loft mill complex, Appleton Mills, Canal Street intersects before the Court House.

The Social Pup.

Moulton Street view from Jackson Street. Below view from Middlesex Sreet, looking towards Jackson Street. A movie was filmed on this street and I wrote about it in a previous post.

Moulton Street on left.

The mill on the left is now Counting House Lofts, the photo was taken from Jackson Street, the view below shows the three mills from the opposite direction, looking towards Jackson Street. (I don't know the name of any of the mills. The older photo was taken in 2014.) Loft 27 is at the right.

The parking lot for the mills shows another mill along the Pawtucket Canal (this water goes under Central Street), and that is where I took the above photo on December 16, 2021.

Side street and entrance to the Edward Early Jr. Parking Garage. Middlesex Street is ahead.

Past the parking garage and all mills, below are two views of Jackson Stree, with Appleton Mills on the left, Counting House Loft in the middle, and Mill #5 on the right. The small Hamilton canal is on the left. In the 60s, I worked on Market Street and walked over to these mills because the canal was covered over. Favorite mills made fabric for sewing and of course Educator Biscuit made Girl Scout cookies, both mills provided outlet shopping.

Above was taken October 29, 2014, below 2021.

The Lowell Community Health Center is at

135 Jackson Street

Mill #5 is on the left, Appleton and other mills on the right.

This mill has a lot to offer the public. A small movie theater and lots of shops. For me, I love to take pictures out of the 4th-floor windows. Across the street,  but further down is Counting House Lofts. Central Street is at the very end.

In 2015 I showed/wrote about the transformation from old to new, with photos of the interior. https://lifefromtheroots.blogspot.com/2015/10/there-is-lot-to-like-about-lowell-old.html

The five photos show the inside the shopping floor of Mill #5. Photos from 2015 and 2021.

April 8, 2018. From Mill #5.

Hamilton Canal front and back.

Hamilton Canal.

In front of the Justice Center. Jackson St. is on the left and Middlesex St. is on the right. The empty field in front will be home for another building.

Below, constructing a new building and a road.

January 25, 2016.

August 24, 2018.

April 4, 2020.

 

The end of the new extension of Jackson Street. The street merges into the old Thorndike Overpass, which is now a pretty flat road. Photo December 14, 2021.

A New Discovery this week, Another Mill called Western Studios, But First Some Photos Of Mill No. 5.

A New Discovery this Week in the Mills

The mill is on the right (below).

There has been quite a bit written lately about Mill No. 5 and the Western Avenue Studios, two former mills. Unlike many other mills in the city that are used as office space or for apartments / condos, these mills now have shops, cafe, Luna (a small movie theater) and special events for the public. It's a great way to see a mill first hand.

My husband and I went the day after Christmas to both, and since most of the artists and shop owners weren't there, we had the buildings to ourselves, free to roam, explore and take photos.

At Mill No. 5, you need to take the elevator to the 4th floor.

Perhaps you can tell, work is still being done on the mill.

The entire floor was decked out in holiday decorations, and all the shops looked quite magical.

Note: Three of my photos have been stolen by http://thehammersmithgroup.com/#!projects/cwvn and are claimed as theirs.

thehammersmithgroup should be ashamed because they have easy access to their own projects and should use their own resources and not resort to taking photos from my blog. I discovered this when I read Curbed by Rachel B. Doyle and saw 2 of my photos. From that site, "Doors from Dr. Seuss' house. The facade of a 17th-century Georgian facade from London. Stained glass windows. All of these elements are present in an 1873 textile mill that was recently reborn as an eclectic retail complex in Lowell, Massachusetts. Instead of the typical warehouse look, the interiors of Mill No. 5 feature architectural elements salvaged from historic buildings all over New England. The biggest challenge, says Constantine Valhouli, who worked on the project, was "getting some of the large pieces up the dramatic curved stairwell when they couldn't be craned through an open window."

 Entrance to the Luna theater (above).

Large comfortable seats with a table shared by two.

 Coffee shop.

 Yoga Studio, with 4 huge windows and a nice view.

 

 

Jackson Street, looking towards the Western Avenue mill in the distance. Below are photos from the 2nd mill containing 245 studio rental space for over 300 artisans.

 Western Avenue Studios

Entrance (above)

The cooperative gallery has items to buy.

Public sitting area.

Love what they did with the loading dock.

 There are five floors of studio rental space for artists to live and or work.

 

We walked down five flights of stairs, all looking like these.

 Ground level (above and below).

From a vacant studio, I looked out on a canal.