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Lowell Historic Board approves rehabilitation and rear addition for 278 Central Street; architect to rebuild failing rear structure
Summary
The board approved design plans April 14 for 278 Central Street, a project to preserve the building’s mansard and storefront while demolishing and rebuilding a deteriorated rear addition to expand and improve 27 lodging rooms above commercial space.
The Lowell Historic Board on April 14 approved exterior rehabilitation and a new rear addition for 278 Central Street, a building dating to 1824 long used as lodging. The board’s approval allows demolition and reconstruction of a failing rear addition and several exterior alterations designed to highlight the building’s historic mansard and storefront.
Architect Anthony Mackey, representing the applicant, described the building as a composite of multiple historic alterations with a front masonry block and a rear boxy addition from about 1906. Mackey said interior demolition exposed widespread structural deterioration in the rear and center floors that required replacing floor framing. “When we fully exposed it, it just it wouldn't be sustainable in terms of safety or meet even today's code,”…
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