This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACE/1650.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello. In this morning's "Lowell Sun," I found an ad for the sale of one of the condo's in Lowell, and was reminded that this condo-complex is in the building for the former "Keith Academy." I found a web site for the school where the "brief history" says that the school opened in 1926. http://64.227.220.246/KeithWeb/indexKeithAcademy.htm The "history" doesn't mention that the building was formerly used as a "Jail," though. But, the opening of the school in 1926 coincides with the opening of the "House of Correction" in Billerica in 1929. So, maybe the "Lowell Jail" closed around 1920-1925. If that is true, then you would probably find "inmates" in the Lowell Jail in possibly the 1900, 1910, and 1920 Census, but not in the 1930 census. I don't know how to find Census information by "street" but you would be looking for a building on Thorndike Street. (This morning on-line I have seen a photo of the old "Keith Academy" and the old "Lowell Jail," and they are the same building.)