{{Short description|Skyscraper in Lowell, Massachusetts}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} thumb|Lowell Sun Building in 2026 thumb|The Lowell Sun Building from the ground.|alt=A photo from the ground of the orange skyscraper. thumb| The '''Lowell Sun Building''' is an early "skyscraper" in Lowell, Massachusetts. The steel frame and reinforced concrete building was designed by architect Clarence Blackall of Boston and built from 1912 to 1914.<ref name=bo>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lowellma.gov/1545/Skyscraper|title=Skyscraper &#124; Lowell, MA|website=www.lowellma.gov|access-date=2025-07-16|archive-date=2025-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305131144/https://www.lowellma.gov/1545/Skyscraper|url-status=live}}</ref>

It was built for Lowell's newspaper ''The Sun'' and replaced a red brick Greek revival building the paper had used elsewhere in Lowell. The paper's operations moved elsewhere in the 1960s<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lowellsunsign.com/history|title=History|website=Lowell Sun Sign Restoration}}</ref>

Artworks by John Ingersoll Coggeshall were commissioned for the building.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://libguides.uml.edu/c.php?g=524531&p=3586478|title=LibGuides: John Ingersoll Coggeshall: His Work|first=M. F. A.|last=Tony Sampas MLIS|website=libguides.uml.edu|access-date=2025-07-16|archive-date=2024-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723155226/https://libguides.uml.edu/c.php?g=524531&p=3586478|url-status=live}}</ref>

Blackall's firm, Blackall, Clapp and Whittemore, designed the Lowell Memorial Auditorium built in 1922 as well as tall for the time commercial buildings in Boston and many theaters in Boston.<ref name=bo/> John H. Harrington owned the earlier Sun building and rented out space in it. He was captured in photographs posing the older building.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://insidelowell.com/landmark-lowell-sun-sign-replaced-one-from-1893/|title=Landmark Lowell Sun Sign Replaced One from 1893|date=June 16, 2025|website=InsideLowell}}</ref>

A weather station and large neon letters spelling SUN were added atop the building in the 1930s.<ref name=bo/>

The building is now senior housing and the neon in the letters has been replaced by LEDs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lowellsun.com/2025/06/05/sun-shines-down-on-lowell/|title=Sun shines down on Lowell|date=June 5, 2025|access-date=July 16, 2025|archive-date=June 6, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250606233404/https://www.lowellsun.com/2025/06/05/sun-shines-down-on-lowell/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also== *National Register of Historic Places listings in Lowell, Massachusetts

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Category:Buildings and structures in Lowell, Massachusetts Category:1914 establishments in Massachusetts Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1914 Category:Newspaper headquarters in the United States Category:Clarence H. Blackall buildings Category:Commercial buildings in Massachusetts