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at 611 Massachusetts Avenue maintains the world's largest collection of Dallin's sculptures and paintings. Unusual is the octagonal
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road past it on his historic ride warning of the impending arrival of
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Late 19th And 20th
Century Revivals, Gothic Revival, Federal
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (Arlington, Massachusetts)
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369:Arlington Co-Operative Bank Building, entry detail
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288:and built in 1912, and the adjacent
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766:Fall River
745:Barnstable
652:Barnstable
491:References
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919:Wakefield
874:Lexington
859:Cambridge
854:Arlington
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697:Nantucket
692:Middlesex
687:Hampshire
657:Berkshire
545:March 26,
254:in 1974.
175:Architect
150:71°9′21″W
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986:southern
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904:Sherborn
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