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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

3 31 1917

11 14 1917

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

January 29, 1919

December 21, 1934

March 31, 1941

March 31, 1941

November 27, 1941

December 3, 1941

March 2, 1942

February 20, 1945

May 23, 1945

May 7, 1947

October 8, 1948

October 18, 1948

March 30, 1950

March 30, 1950

November 12, 1950

November 12, 1950

November 12, 1950

September 23, 1951

September 23, 1951

December 10, 1951

December 10, 1951

September 29, 1952

December 14, 1952

February 22, 1953

February 22, 1953

May 17, 1953

May 17, 1853

February 25, 1954

December 19, 1956

December 20, 1957

December 9, 1959

March 16, 1964