Chateau Fairmount

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The Lowell Directory, 1936

Creator
Sampson & Murdock Co.
Date
1936
Type
book
Repository
Internet Archive (lowellma-directory-1936); a copy is in the house library
Locator
Cited pages: scan leaves 457, 717, 831
Access
The title page and the pages cited on this site are reproduced here from the copy in the house library (owner’s ruling, October 28, 2026); the whole volume can be read at the Internet Archive. Read the source · Original at archive.org
Rights
Published 1936 by Sampson & Murdock Co. with a copyright notice. No renewal was found in a quick check of the renewal records (October 28, 2026); city directories were generally not renewed. Reproduced under the owner’s ruling of October 28, 2026; it will be removed on request.

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The title page and the 3 pages this site cites (4 page images), cut from the scanned book. The Lowell Directory, 1936 (Sampson & Murdock Co.). Internet Archive scan lowellma-directory-1936; copy in the house library. Published 1936 by Sampson & Murdock Co. with a copyright notice. No renewal was found in a quick check of the renewal records (October 28, 2026); city directories were generally not renewed. Reproduced under the owner’s ruling of October 28, 2026; it will be removed on request. This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.

  1. The Lowell Directory, 1936: Title pageTitle page
  2. The Lowell Directory, 1936: Leaf 457 of the scan. Cited in note C-140.Leaf 457 of the scan. Cited in note C-140.
  3. The Lowell Directory, 1936: Leaf 717 of the scan (street section). Cited in note C-161.Leaf 717 of the scan (street section). Cited in note C-161.
  4. The Lowell Directory, 1936: Leaf 831 of the scan (street section). Cited in note C-140.Leaf 831 of the scan (street section). Cited in note C-140.

Statements this record supports

  • C-140 — John J. McGowan was the Lilleys' coachman and later chauffeur and lived with his family on the estate in two spans, about 1897-1906 and 1916-1931 (James Dunn was the coachman in 1910; C-395, C-406): the Lowell birth registers give his occupation as coachman at 236 Fairmount Street in June 1897 and June 1903; he was there in 1920 and 1921 (in 1916 and 1921 described as chauffeur), and in 1928 and 1931 he was the caretaker. The 1930 census lists the McGowans at 'rear 234 Fairmount'; the 1931 directory gives 'rear 236'. His mother, Mary (McHugh) McGowan, the 'widow' of the 1900 directory, came from Ireland in 1896 and died in Lowell on February 25, 1921.
  • C-161 — The estate's rear dwelling, the coachman's and later the caretaker's home, appears under No. 236 in the directories: the coachman (by 1916 a chauffeur) is listed at 236, 'house do.', in 1900, 1906 and 1916, and a rear dwelling, 'r 236' or 'rear', in 1926, 1931 and 1936, when it was let to a tenant. It no longer appears under No. 236 in 1946, the first directory after the 1944 division of the estate, and that is also the first directory with a 222 Fairmount Street, which is absent in 1926, 1931 and 1936.

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