Lowell Sun Building

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The Lowell Sun Building is an early skyscraper in Lowell, Massachusetts. It has a steel frame and reinforced concrete. Designed by Clarence Blackall of Boston, it was built from 1912 to 1914 for The Sun newspaper, replacing the paper’s old red-brick Greek Revival building. The Sun moved its operations in the 1960s. The building features artwork by John Ingersoll Coggeshall. Blackall, Clapp and Whittemore also designed the Lowell Memorial Auditorium (1922) and many tall commercial buildings and theaters in Boston. The earlier Sun building was owned by John H. Harrington, who rented space there and was photographed in front of the old building. A weather station and a large SUN sign were added to the roof in the 1930s. Today the building is used as senior housing, and the SUN letters have been replaced with LEDs.