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Center For Lowell History

Lowell History: The Isolation Hospital

The Lowell Isolation Hospital, later called Meadowcrest Hospital. Officially opened in 1920. Partially opened in 1918 to treat victims of the Spanish Flu.

Newspaper photo gallery (use your keyboad arrows to advance slides)

May 7, 1900

May 26, 1900

June 21, 1900

May 5, 1908

October 15, 1910

November 18, 1910

April 24, 1911

May 8, 1911

May 24, 1911

December 17, 1912

December 27, 1912

From "The Record of a City" by George Kenngott (1912)

December 16, 1913

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January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

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December 21, 1934

March 31, 1941

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November 27, 1941

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February 20, 1945

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September 23, 1951

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December 10, 1951

December 10, 1951

September 29, 1952

December 14, 1952

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May 17, 1953

May 17, 1853

February 25, 1954

December 19, 1956

December 20, 1957

December 9, 1959

March 16, 1964