Historic places in Arlington, Massachusetts
Arlington in Middlesex County has 63 properties on the National Register of Historic Places: 54 buildings, 6 districts, 1 site, 1 structure, 1 object. The first was listed in 1971 and the most recent in 2006. The most common areas of significance here are architecture, community planning and development, religion.
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Every National Register listing in Arlington
Arlington Center Historic District (also See Also:Arlington Center Historic District (Boundary Increa)
The Arlington Center Historic District includes the civic and commercial heart of Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Bounded by Massachusetts Ave. and Academy, Pleasant and Maple Sts. · NPS record #74000361
Kensington Park Historic District (also Numbers 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 23)
The Kensington Park Historic District of Arlington, Massachusetts encompasses a turn of the 20th century planned residential subdivision in the hills above the town center, representing an early phase in the town's transition from a rural to suburban setting. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by Kensington Park, Brantwood and Kensington Rds. · NPS record #85002679
Pleasant Street Congregational Church (also Orthodox Congregational Church)
The Pleasant Street Congregational Church is an historic Congregational church at 75 Pleasant Street in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
75 Pleasant St. · NPS record #83000823
Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery
The Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery, also known as the Prince Hall Cemetery, is a historic cemetery located on Gardner Street, Arlington, Massachusetts, United States. [Wikipedia]
Address not published · NPS record #97001473
Allyn House (also # 339)
The Allyn House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002680
Arlington Center Historic District (Boundary Increase) (also See Also:Arlington Center Historic District; Russell,Jason,Ho)
Roughly bounded by Jason St., Massachusetts Ave., Pleasant and Gray Sts. · NPS record #85002691
Arlington Coal & Lumber
The Arlington Coal & Lumber Company building is a historic commercial and civic building located in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States. [Wikipedia]
41 Park Ave. · NPS record #85001020
Arlington Gaslight Company (also Gas Works)
The Arlington Gaslight Company is an historic industrial complex in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Grove St. Town Yard · NPS record #85001021
Arlington Pumping Station
The Arlington Pumping Station, built in 1907, is a historic water pumping station on Brattle Court (off Brattle Street) in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Brattle Court off Brattle St. · NPS record #85001022
Arlington Reservoir (also # 902)
The Park Circle Water Tower is a large water storage tank located on Park Circle in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Park Circle · NPS record #85002676
Baptist Society Meeting House
The Baptist Society Meeting House is a historic former Baptist meeting house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001023
Bassett, Maria, House (also #11)
The Maria Bassett House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002681
Butterfield-Whittemore House (also Whittemore,Samuel,House)
With its oldest section dating to c. 1695, it is one of the town's oldest houses, and may be its oldest. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #78000429
Call-Bartlett House
The Call-Bartlett House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001024
Calvary Methodist Church
Calvary Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church building at 300 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
300 Massachusetts Ave. · NPS record #83003433
Capitol Theater Building
The Capitol Theater Building is a historic mixed commercial, residential, and theatrical building at 202–208 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
202--208 Massachusetts Ave. · NPS record #85001025
Chapel of St. Anne
The Chapel of St. [Wikipedia]
Claremont Ave. · NPS record #85001026
Cushman House
The Cushman House (also known as the Wentworth House) is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001027
Cutter, Ephraim, House
Built about 1804 by one of the town's leading mill owners, it is one of Arlington's few surviving Federal period houses. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #78000430
Cutter, Gershom, House
Although traditionally ascribed a construction date of 1802, it is more likely, based on stylistic evidence and other documentary evidence, that this two-story wood-frame house was built c. 1835 by the sixth Gershom Cutter. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #99001306
Cutter, Jefferson, House
The Cyrus Dallin Art Museum (CDAM) in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States is dedicated to displaying the artworks and documentation of American sculptor, educator, and Indigenous rights activist Cyrus Dallin, who lived and worked in the town for over 40 years. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001028
Cutter, Second, A. P., House
The Second A. P. Cutter House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001029
Damon House
The Damon House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001030
Farmer, Kimball, House
The Kimball Farmer House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001031
First Parish Church Parsonage
The First Parish Church Parsonage is a historic parsonage in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
232--234 Pleasant St. · NPS record #85001032
Fowle-Reed-Wyman House (also Belcher House)
The Fowle-Reed-Wyman House is a historic First Period house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #75000244
Greek Orthodox Church (also First Universalist Church)
Highrock Church is an Evangelical Covenant Church congregation located in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
735 Massachusetts Ave. · NPS record #83000805
Hall, Edward, House
The Edward Hall House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001033
Highland Hose House
The two story brick building was built in 1928 to a design by George Ernest Robinson. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001034
Hill, Addison, House (also #421)
The Addison Hill House is a historic house located in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002682
Hornblower, Edward, House and Barn
The Edward Hornblower House and Barn is a historic farmstead in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001035
House at 45 Claremont Avenue
Built c. 1885–90, the house has steeply pitched gables and almost Stick style porch decoration that are typical Gothic work, while the house's massing and the bracketed eaves are Italianate. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001036
House at 5 Willow Court
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001038
House at 5-7 Winter Street
The wood-frame house was built in 1895 by John Squires, who owned a garden farm. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001037
Kimball, W.W., House
The W.W. Kimball House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001039
Locke School (also #569)
The Locke School is a historic school building at 88 Park Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
88 Parke Ave. · NPS record #85002684
Locke, Capt. Benjamin, House
The Capt. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #78000432
Locke, Lt. Benjamin, Store
The Lt. [Wikipedia]
11--13 Lowell St. · NPS record #85001068
Milestone (also #903)
This Milestone, carved in 1790, is a historic milestone at the intersection of Appleton Street and Paul Revere Road in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Appleton St. and Paul Revere Rd. · NPS record #85002683
Mystic Valley Parkway, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston MPS
Mystic Valley Parkway is a parkway in Arlington, Medford, Somerville, and Winchester, Massachusetts, United States. [Wikipedia]
Mystic Valley Parkway · NPS record #05001529
Old Schwamb Mill
The Old Schwamb Mill is an historic 19th-century mill at 17 Mill Lane in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
17 Mill Lane and 29 Lowell St. · NPS record #71000081
Orvis Road Historic District
The Orvis Road Historic District is a residential historic district in eastern Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Roughly bounded by Massachsetts Ave., Freeman, Randolph and Newcomb Sts. on Orvis Rd. · NPS record #85002677
Pierce Farm Historic District (also Numbers 258, 259, 340)
The Peirce Farm Historic District is a small historic district within the Arlington Heights neighborhood of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002678
Prentiss, William, House (also #274)
The William Prentiss House is a historic Greek Revival style house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002685
Prentiss-Payson House
The Prentiss-Payson House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001040
Proctor, William, House
The William Proctor House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001041
Rawson, Warren, Building (also #152)
The Warren Rawson Building is a historic multi-unit residence at 68-74 Franklin Street in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
68--74 Franklin St. · NPS record #85002686
Rawson, Warren, House
This utilitarian wood frame rowhouse was built c. 1885-90 by Warren Rawson, a leading farmer in Arlington, to house farm workers. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001042
Robindreau, Alfred E., House
The Alfred E. Robindreau House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001043
Robinson House
The Robinson House is an historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001044
Robinson-Lewis-G. F. Fessenden House
The Robinson-Lewis-G. F. Fessenden House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001045
Russell Common
Russell Common is a historic row house at 2—10 Park Terrace in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
2--10 Park Terrace · NPS record #85001046
Russell, Jason House
The Jason Russell House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts, in and around which at least twenty-one colonial combatants died fighting on the first day of the American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775 (the Battles of Lexington and Concord). [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #74000363
Shattuck, Ralph W., House (also #441)
The Ralph W. Shattuck House is a historic duplex house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002687
Sterling, Ella Mahalla Cutter, House
The Ella Mahalla Cutter Sterling House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001047
Swadkins, Thomas, House
The Thomas Swadkins House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001048
Swan, Henry, House (also #519)
The Henry Swan House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002688
Symmes, Stephen, Jr., House
The Stephen Symmes Jr. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001049
Taylor-Dallin House (also #337)
The Taylor-Dallin House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002689
US Post Office-Arlington Main
The United States Post Office—Arlington Main is a historic post office in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
10 Court St. · NPS record #86001351
Wayside Inn (also #516)
The Wayside Inn, once known as the Cutter House, is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85002690
Whittemore House
The Whittemore House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001050
Winn Farm
It is a typical Federal style house, five bays wide, with a center entrance, standing in a part of the town that was not developed more fully until the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
Town-level location only · NPS record #85001051
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