Arlington Center Historic District
The Arlington Center Historic District includes the civic and commercial heart of Arlington, Massachusetts.

The Arlington Center Historic District includes the civic and commercial heart of Arlington, Massachusetts. It runs along the town's main commercial district, Massachusetts Avenue, from Jason Street to Franklin Street, and includes adjacent 19th- and early 20th-century residential areas roughly bounded by Jason Street, Pleasant Street, and Gray Street. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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Worth seeing in and around Arlington Center Historic District
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts, United States, with additional facilities in Boston and Grafton, as well as Talloires, France. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning.
3.1 km · private research university in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 02The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school for international relations at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Fletcher is one of America's oldest and most distinguished graduate schools of international relations.
2.9 km · Tufts University school of international relations and law · Wikipedia - 03Boston Massachusetts Temple
The Boston Massachusetts Temple is the 100th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The intent to build the temple was announced on September 30, 1995, by church president Gordon B. Hinckley during the church's general conference.
2.7 km · temple of the LDS Church · Wikipedia - 04Mystic Dam
The Mystic Dam are a historic dam and gatehouse between Lower and Upper Mystic Lakes in the suburbs north of Boston, Massachusetts. The dam was built in 1864–65 by the Charlestown Water Commission as part of a water supply system.
1.9 km · dam in Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 05Alewife Brook Reservation
Alewife Brook Reservation is a Massachusetts state park and urban wild located in Cambridge, Arlington, and Somerville. The park is managed by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation and was established in 1900.
2.2 km · state park in Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 06St. James Episcopal Church
St. James's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church at 1991 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
3.9 km · church in Cambridge, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 07Davis Square
Davis Square is a major intersection in the northwestern section of Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Holland Street, Dover Street, Day Street, Elm Street, Highland Avenue, and College Avenue all meet there.
3.4 km · square in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States of America · Wikipedia - 08Prince 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. It may be the only remaining African American Masonic cemetery in the United States.
1.8 km · historic cemetery in Arlington, Massachusetts · Wikipedia - 09Locke School
The Locke School is a historic school building at 88 Park Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. The two-story brick building was built in 1899 to a design by Gay & Proctor.
2.4 km · historic school building in Arlington, Massachusetts, United States · Wikipedia - 10Jason Russell 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 house was purchased in 1923 by the Arlington Historical Society which restored it in 1926 and now operates it as a museum.
300 m · Historic house · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arlington Center Historic District
- Airports
- Boston Logan (BOS), 13 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 80 km · Bradley (BDL), 137 km
- Stations
- Alewife station, 2.4 km · Davis station, 3.3 km · Belmont Center station, 2.6 km · Medford/Tufts station, 3.3 km · West Medford station, 2 km
- Providence/Warwick → Arlington Center Historic District83 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · $8–11
- Portland → Arlington Center Historic District4066 km · quickest by air, 9h 11m · $460–700
- Hartford → Arlington Center Historic District145 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Arlington Center Historic District
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arlington Center Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe F4 water taxi runs between Long Wharf and the Charlestown Navy Yard.
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Arlington Center Historic District is 10 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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