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Historic district in Massachusetts, United States

Arlington Center Historic District

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

Arlington Center Historic District
Arlington Center Historic District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Tufts 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
  2. 02
    The 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
  3. 03
    Boston 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
  4. 04
    Mystic 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
  5. 05
    Alewife 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
  6. 06
    St. 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
  7. 07
    Davis 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
  8. 08
    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. It may be the only remaining African American Masonic cemetery in the United States.

    1.8 km · historic cemetery in Arlington, Massachusetts · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Locke 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
  10. 10
    Jason 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

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 District
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · $8–11
  • Portland → Arlington Center Historic District
    4066 km · quickest by air, 9h 11m · $460–700
  • Hartford → Arlington Center Historic District
    145 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $13–18
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe F4 water taxi runs between Long Wharf and the Charlestown Navy Yard.

From Wikivoyage: Boston/Charlestown, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    257 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    262 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,738 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,754 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,856 km

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Around it

Next door to Arlington Center Historic District

Arlington Center Historic District is 10 km from Boston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.