Flagpole installation inLowell, MA

Flagpoles in Lowell

A mill city that turned its yards and canals into a national park, with a university and a downtown of converted brick around them. We cover Lowell and the Middlesex County area, including Lowell National Historical Park, the Boott Cotton Mills and the Wannalancit yard, the Merrimack and Pawtucket canals, UMass Lowell, Middlesex Community College, the Tsongas Center and LeLacheur Park, and the Merrimack at Pawtucket Falls.

Wind here. Lowell sits in an inland, canal-cut and mill-built area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. The Lowell Historic Board is the first stop and not the last. It was created by a special act of the legislature in 1983, the Downtown Lowell Historic District it governs takes in the commercial blocks, the millyards and the canal system, and its approval has to be in hand before any other city permit is issued, so it belongs at the front of the programme rather than the end. The canals are the physical version of the same problem: the yards and much of the downtown sit on and around five and a half miles of waterway, and a four-foot hole is not something to begin without knowing what is under it. A mill yard with a thin cap of fill over it is worth a test hole before a price. Wind itself is mild for eastern Massachusetts, so a standard-wall shaft is usually right and the money goes into the finish, which the Historic Board will be looking at anyway.

Most of the people who call us from Lowell are university and college buildings, mill conversions and the companies that manage them, city facilities and fire houses, schools, places of worship, veterans posts and downtown retail.