Middlesex Superior Courthouse in Lowell
Posted by DickH on 08 Jul 2008 at 07:10 am | Tagged as: History, Lowell
Yesterday’s visit to Senator Kerry to the Hamilton Canal district serves as a reminder that plans for the new judicial center, which will serve as one of the anchor tenants of that redevelopment, are well underway. Once the Judicial Center opens, the Lowell District Court and the Superior Court will both move into it. It’s not clear what will happen to the registry of deeds although it’s unlikely it will find room in the Judicial Center. It’s also unclear what will become of the existing Superior Courthouse at 360 Gorham Street, a building in relatively good shape and a building overflowing with history. This short video slideshow introduces some of that history:
Speaking of the Superior Courthouse, early yesterday morning, Lowell Mayor Bud Caulfield was patiently waiting in line with dozens of fellow residents of Middlesex County to report for jury duty. It was a reminder that whether you are the most ordinary of citizens or the mayor of the community, you still must fulfill your vitally important civic obligation of serving on a jury.
Got room for a fire museum in there?
If there was room, we could bring the Water Tower now housed in Haverhill back home to Lowell!
The day I had to report, it was a snow cancellation and so I didn’t get to serve. That’s the third time I’ve been called, and the third I wasn’t eligible or got canceled. The last two were in NH and both times I had moved out of the county that I was called in.
The building IS very nice. Is it the property of DCAM? Wonder how long it’ll take them to do something with it.
At least as of 2002 or so, the building was included in DCAM’s inventory.
[…] Lowell Sun reported on the opening of the “New Court House” which would be the present Superior Court on Gorham Street in Lowell. Although more than a century has passed, the story reads as though it […]