The hall was very prominent during the Lowell's Civil War years. The City of Lowell and the Boston & Lowell Railroad entered into a joint agreement to build the hall in 1853, which provided the railroad with the Merrimack Street Depot and the city with a public hall. Named for the early longtime Lowell mayor, Elisha Huntington, the building housed the hall in its upper stories, and the train depot on its bottom story.

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