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Arlington Center Historic District

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Arlington remained a small rural town until the middle of the 19th century. Before then it had a few mills (none of which have survived) located on Mill Brook, which runs just north of Massachusetts Avenue. Some of the housing associated with the mill workers survives in a densely packed
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at 611 Massachusetts Avenue maintains the world's largest collection of Dallin's sculptures and paintings. Unusual is the octagonal Central Fire Station, which anchors the east end of the district, built in 1926 to a design by George Ernest Robinson.
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Most of the commercial, civic, and religious buildings in Arlington Center were built later in the 19th century or in the early years of the 20th. Prominent among them is the Classical Revival
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residential area on Central Street. One of the finer houses from this period is the 1842 Gothic Revival Chase Wellington House at 16 Maple Street.
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road past it on his historic ride warning of the impending arrival of British troops. Arlington was the scene of some of the worst fighting in the
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in 1775. A number of the dead from both sides of that battle are interred there.
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Arlington, Massachusetts
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National Register of Historic Places in Arlington, Massachusetts
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Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Gothic Revival, Federal
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Exterior view showing main church and bell tower with clock
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Arlington, Massachusetts)
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Historic districts in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
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Cyrus Dallin Art Museum in the Jefferson Cutter House
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Arlington Center Historic District is located in Massachusetts
Arlington Center Historic District is located in the United States
Arlington, Massachusetts
42°24′53″N 71°9′21″W / 42.41472°N 71.15583°W / 42.41472; -71.15583
MPS
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Arlington, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places
Jason Russell House
Paul Revere
Battles of Lexington and Concord
American Revolutionary War
Robbins Memorial Town Hall
R. Clipston Sturgis
Robbins Memorial Library
Cabot, Everett & Mead
Olmsted Brothers
Cyrus Dallin
The Menotomy Hunter
Robbins Memorial Flagstaff
Cyrus Dallin Art Museum
Jefferson Cutter House
Arlington Friends of the Drama on Academy St.
Masonic temple on Academy St.
Old Burying Ground on Pleasant St.
Arlington Co-Operative Bank Building, entry detail

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