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One Hundred Years of Art: The Whistler House Museum James Dyment Whistler House Museum of Art;/br> 243 Worthen Street Lowell In Lowell, Massachusetts, during the industrial revolution, the structure known now as the Whistler House Museum of Art was first built to house Paul Moody from Newbury. The structure was a combination of Federal and Greek Revival architecture. Moody was hired by the Proprietors of Locks and Canals to improve the power looms, which made the cotton mills more productive. In 1834, the house was inhabited by Major George Washington Whistler, also hired by the Proprietors, to head the Lowell Machine Shop and develop a better locomotive. Shortly after moving, his wife Anna Matilda gave birth to their son, James Abbot Whistler (later changed to James McNeill Whistler). Major Whistler, a very talented engineer, supervised the construction of the first rail line between Boston and Lowell. Only a few years later, the family moved from the house so Whistler could further his career, eventually leading to Russia where he helped build the rail system for Czar Nicholas I. The house was inhabited by other important figures that held positions at the Proprietors of Locks and Canals in Lowell. The artist, Thomas B. Lawson, along with several others, incorporated the Lowell Art Association (LAA) in 1878. Their mission was “…for the purpose of developing, nurturing and increasing a love of, and a taste for, art in all its forms among the citizens of Lowell, and in that view eventually to own paintings, statuary and objects of general artistic value and merit, a library for reference, an art gallery, to give public periodical exhibitions of art, and in general to do and possess all things that it lawfully can to advance the study and progress of art in the city where it is formed…” Read the entire article in our magazine pages...