page_title: Lowell, Massachusetts
section_title: Points of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Lowell, Massachusetts / Arts and culture / Points of interest
caption_attribution_description: English: "A Mother's Hands" - Monument Dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Artist: Daniel Varoujan Hejinian (2014) This genocide memorial is to not acknowledge the killing of 1.5 million people from 1915 to 1923 and is the first Armenian Genocide monument unveiled on the site of a government building in the U.S.The monument is made of bronze and granite and there are two three-dimensional hands at the top of the piece of art showing a mother's hands crocheting. At the bottom of the structure is inscribed the words "In Memory" both in English and Armenian. Location: 375 Merrimack Street (outside City Hall)
context_page_description: Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. With an estimated population of 110,997 in 2019, it was the fourth-largest city in Massachusetts as of the last census and is estimated to be the fifth-largest as of 2018, and the second-largest in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area called Greater Lowell, as well as New England's Merrimack Valley region.
  Incorporated in 1826 to serve as a mill town, Lowell was named after Francis Cabot Lowell, a local figure in the Industrial Revolution. The city became known as the cradle of the American Industrial Revolution, due to a large series of textile mills and factories. Many of the Lowell's historic manufacturing sites were later preserved by the National Park Service to create Lowell National Historical Park. During the Cambodian genocide, the city took in an influx of refugees, leading to a Cambodia Town and America's second-largest Cambodian-American population.
  Lowell is home to two institutions of higher education.
context_section_description: Among the many tourist attractions, Lowell also currently has 39 places on the National Register of Historic Places including many buildings and structures as part of the Lowell National Historical Park.
  In the mid-1980s, Kerouac Park was placed in downtown.
  Lowell National Historical Park: Maintains Lowell's history as an early manufacturing and immigrant city.  Exhibits include weave rooms, a waterpower exhibit, and paths along 5.6 miles of largely restored canals.
  Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest: Hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing trails in an urban state forest
  University of Massachusetts Lowell: State University
  University of Massachusetts Lowell Radiation Laboratory: The site of a small nuclear reactor at the school
  Vandenberg Esplanade: Walking, biking, swimming, and picnicking park along the banks of the Merrimack River. Contains the Sampas Pavilion.
  Western Avenue Studios: Largest complex of artists studios in the United States at 122 Western Avenue.
  Jack Kerouac's birthplace: In the Centralville section of the city at 9 Lupine Road.
  Armenian Genocide Memorial: "A Mother's Hands" Monument at Lowell City Hall.
  Bette Davis's birthplace: In the Highlands section of the city at 22 Chester Street.
  Rosalind Elias's birthplace: In the Acre neighborhood at 144 School Street .
  Lowell Cemetery: burial site of many of Lowell's wealthy industrialists from the Victorian era, as well as several U.S. Congressmen, a Massachusetts Governor, John McFarland, and a U.S. Senator. 77 Knapp Avenue.
  Edson Cemetery: burial site of Jack Kerouac and William Preston Phelps. Location of a monument dedicated to Chief Passaconaway. 1375 Gorham Street.
  The Acre: Lowell's gateway neighborhood where waves of immigrants have established their communities.
  Yorick Building: Former home of the gentlemen's club the "Yorick Club", currently a restaurant & function facility (Cobblestones).
  Little Cambodia: In 2010, the city began an effort to make it a tourist destination.
caption: "A Mother's Hands" Armenian Genocide memorial outside of Lowell City Hall.
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