The Lowell Memorial Auditorium is an indoor auditorium in downtown Lowell , Massachusetts , in the United States . It is dedicated to local veterans of war.
7-514: The 2,800-seat venue was built in 1922 by the architectural firm of Blackall, Clapp & Whittemore . The exterior walls bear the names of famous generals and battles, with monuments to newer wars on the auditorium's small lawn. Common events include concerts, comedy acts, large plays, and boxing. Attached to the auditorium is the smaller theatre of the Merrimack Repertory Theatre . In February 2014, an American flag from
14-532: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Blackall, Clapp %26 Whittemore Clarence Howard Blackall (February 3, 1857 – March 5, 1942) was an American architect who is estimated to have designed 300 theatres. Blackall was born in Brooklyn, New York , in 1857. He attended college at the University of Illinois School of Architecture , graduating with a B.S. in 1877, and received training at
21-490: The Boston Architectural College as a club for local architects and as a training program for draftsman. He designed the 1894 Carter Winthrop Building , which was the first steel frame structure in the city of Boston. In addition to its innovative technology, the structure also used terra cotta trim and featured a dramatic, deep, and overhanging cornice . Blackall is also credited with designing
28-809: The Copley Plaza Hotel , the Foellinger Auditorium (1907) on the University of Illinois campus, as well as the Little Building (1917) at Emerson College on the site of the Pelham Hotel (1857), the "first apartment house in any city along the Atlantic seaboard of the United States" according to architectural historian Walter Muir Whitehill. Blackall also designed Lowell, Massachusetts' first steel frame building,
35-704: The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1882, where he was recognized for both his architectural innovations and his designs of significant Boston landmarks including the Colonial Theatre , Wilbur Theatre , Modern and Metropolitan (now the Wang Center for Performing Arts) theatres. Blackall was a senior member of the Boston architectural firm Blackall, Clapp and Whittemore , and in 1889 he helped establish
42-712: The Civil War was discovered in the basement. The flag had been carried by Solon Perkins , a lieutenant in the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, who was killed in the Battle of Clinton, Louisiana , on June 3, 1863. It was given to the Lowell Memorial Auditorium in 1929 by Mary Sawyer Knapp, and now hangs there in the Hall of Flags. This article about a building or structure in Massachusetts
49-575: The ten story Sun Building (1912-1914). Opened in 1908 and designed by Blackall, the Gaiety Theatre was one of the only theatres in New England that would allow African Americans to perform vaudeville . It was also the first of Blackall's theatres to use a large steel girder to support the balcony, eliminating the need for architectural columns . Blackall was also responsible for Nathan H. Gordon 's Olympia Theatre design, which opened as
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