<p>The Arlington Center Historic District includes the civic and commercial heart of Arlington, Massachusetts. It runs along the town&#39;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.</p><br>
<p>The oldest house in the district is the c. 1740 Jason Russell House. The town&#39;s Old Burying Ground is located on Pleasant Street; its oldest marked grave dates to 1735. Paul Revere 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 Battles of Lexington and Concord that started the American Revolutionary War in 1775. A number of the dead from both sides of that battle are interred there.</p><br>
<p>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 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.</p><br>
<p>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 Robbins Memorial Town Hall, designed by R. Clipston Sturgis and built in 1912, and the adjacent Robbins Memorial Library, built in 1892 to a design by Cabot, Everett & Mead. In between them are gardens that were first designed by Sturgis and later redesigned in 1939 by the Olmsted Brothers firm. Two noteworthy sculptures by Cyrus Dallin can be found on the grounds including The Menotomy Hunter and The Robbins Memorial Flagstaff. The Cyrus Dallin Art Museum in the Jefferson Cutter House at 611 Massachusetts Avenue maintains the worlds largest collection of Dallins 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.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Coal & Lumber Company building is a historic commercial and civic building located in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1875, it is a locally significant example of Late Gothic Revival architecture, with a long history as a community center. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The family-owned lumber yard has been in business at this location since 1923.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arlington Coal & Lumber Company building is located on the north side of Park Avenue on the east side of the village of Arlington Heights. It is a two-story wood frame building with a front gabled roof. Its exterior is clad mostly in wooden clapboards, with top portion of the front gable finished in vertical board siding. The front façade has four sash windows on the first floor, with the entrance between the two rightmost, framed by pilasters and topped by an entablature and gabled pediment. The first floor is separated from the second by a shallow hip-roofed porch. The upper level has a central group of three tall round-arch windows, flanked on either side small round windows. Fenestration and door placement on the sides is varied. The ground floor houses commercial space, and the upper level a large auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The distinctive Gothic Revival building was built c. 1875, and has seen a variety of uses. Its upper floor was used as a meeting space, and was where political meetings, religious services, and social events took place, along with civic activities such as theater productions, dance classes, and fraternal society meetings. One group that used it was the Arlington Zouaves, a quasi-military marching society. The first floor has predominantly been used for commercial purposes, although the building did for a time house a branch of the local public library.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Gaslight Company is an historic industrial complex in Arlington, Massachusetts. It is one of the towns few large-scale examples of industrial architecture, built for a local fuel company in 1914. The three-building facility presently houses the towns public works department with the Gas Light Company Building housing the town&#39;s Facilities Department. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Arlington Gas Company property consists of about 4.5 acre on the east side of Grove Street in central Arlington, and is bounded on the north by the former railroad right-of-way that now carries the Minuteman Bike Path. The largest surviving building, a power station occupying a significant portion of the back section of the property, is a prominent local example of Romanesque Revival architecture, with corbelled brick decoration on its cornices. Fronting on Grove Street are two smaller brick buildings, one originally serving as the gas company offices, and the other as a meter house.</p><br>
<p>The sites previous industrial use was for the Welch and Griffith saw factory, the first in the United States. This complex burned down in 1913. The complex was built in 1914 to house the Arlington Gas Company, which manufactured fuel for home use. It originally included a large storage tank, on top of which was emblazoned "ARLINGTON" and an arrow pointing north; this was one of the earliest known aids to aerial navigation, and was torn down in 1975. The complex now serves as the towns public works yard with The Facilities Department, Building Department / ISD, and IT Department.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Pumping Station, built in 1907, is a historic water pumping station on Brattle Court  in Arlington, Massachusetts. Its purpose was to provide water to Lexington and higher elevations in Arlington. The station was put in service on December 4, 1907.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The station was designed by CA Dodge & Co, with construction beginning August 23, 1906. It is a brick building 90 ft long by 46 ft wide, about 26 ft from the ground to the cornice. The foundation walls are of Portland cement concrete, faced, where exposed on the outside below the water-table course, with seam-faced granite. Exterior walls are of dark-red faced brick, with Longmeadow brownstone trimmings, and are surmounted by a hip roof supported by steel trusses and covered with slate. The steps at the main entrance, the water-table course and the trimmings below the water-table are of pink Milford granite.</p><br>
<p>The building is subdivided by a division wall forming an engine room 48 ft long by 40 ft wide and 24 ft high, and a boiler room 40 ft long by 35 ft wide and 33 ft high. The interior facing of the engine and boiler room walls is of red brick. The engine room floor is of red quarry tile. The floors in the basement of the engine room and in the boiler and coal houses are granolithic. In the rear of the boiler room there is an underground coal pocket 33 ft long by 27 ft wide by 10 ft high, covered by a reinforced concrete roof over which the side track is carried. In this roof there are 16 openings through which coal may be unloaded from the cars. The brick chimney is in the rear of the building. It is 70 ft high and 8 ft in diameter at the base, diminishing to 5 ft in diameter at a point 6 ft below the top. The flue is 2 feet 6 inches in diameter. The main entrance is on the front of the building. The vestibule is 7 ft by 9 ft, and on either side of it are the office and toilet room, both 8 ft by 9 ft, the three forming a projection from the main building 10 ft by 29 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Pumping equipment</h2><br>
<p>The Allis-Chalmers Company furnished the pumping equipment, which was a horizontal, cross-compound, flywheel engine fitted with Corliss valve gear, and operating two horizontal, outside packed, plunger pumps. The high and low pressure steam pistons were 14 inches and 28 inches in diameter, respectively, and the pump plungers 8% inches in diameter, all having a stroke of 18 inches. The capacity of the engine at 65 revolutions per minute was 1,500,000 gallons in twenty-four hours. The engine which was erected by the Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works was of the horizontal, cross-compound, direct-acting type, operating two outside packed, plunger pumps. The steam cylinders were 11 inches and 22 inches in diameter, the pump plungers 12 inches in diameter, and both pistons and plungers have a stroke of 18 inches. When operated at the rate of 31 revolutions per minute the capacity was 1,500,000 gallons per day. There were two boilers of the horizontal, under-fired type, each 54 inches in diameter, containing 60 3-inch tubes 17 ft long. The furnaces were fitted with Foster shaking grates, 4 ft wide by 5+1/2 ft long.</p><br>
<p>The Baptist Society Meeting House is a historic former Baptist meeting house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1790, it is the town&#39;s oldest surviving church building. Now in residential use, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Baptist Society Meeting House stands roughly midway between Arlington&#39;s town center and the village of Arlington Heights, on the east side of Brattle Street just north of Massachusetts Avenue. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. It is five bays wide and four deep, with a symmetrical front facade. At the center of the facade is a double entrance sheltered by a porch supported by square posts. Windows are sash on the first two floors, with smaller windows on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>Arlingtons Baptist Society was organized in 1780, and was the first group to split away from the towns dominant Congregational church. The congregation first met in a number of private places, including the Capt. Benjamin Locke House, until this building was constructed in 1790. The congregation is now housed in Arlington&#39;s First Baptist Church, and sold this building into private ownership in 1828. The architecture of this building is in emulation of older meeting houses in Lexington and Concord, dating to the early decades of the 18th century, which are seen in period engravings depicting the Battles of Lexington and Concord which started the American Revolutionary War. Originally set facing Massachusetts Avenue, it was in 1913 moved back in its lot and turned to face Brattle Street.</p><br>
<p>The Maria Bassett House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built c. 1850–70, it is one of the oldest houses in northwestern Arlington, and a particularly grand example of Italianate architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Maria Bassett House stands on a hillside overlooking the Lower Mystic Lake, at the southeast corner of College Avenue and Stowecroft Road and a short way above United States Route 3, from which it is separated by an intervening house. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with its front facade oriented to face roughly east, toward the lake. Its Italianate features include a hip roof with extended eaves, paired brackets and dentil moulding in the eaves, and corner boards scored to resemble quoins. The porch, which wraps around two sides, is also elaborately decorated, with brackets, dentil moulding, paired columns, and turned balusters. It probably once had a cupola, another high-style Italianate feature. A modern ell extends to the rear of the house.</p><br>
<p>Estimated to have been built between 1850 and 1870, it was one of the first to be built in the northwestern part of the town, most of which was not developed residentially until the 20th century. The rolling hills of the area were at the time primarily used for dairy farming.</p><br>
<p>The Butterfield-Whittemore House, is a historic colonial house at 54 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. With its oldest section dating to c. 1695, it is one of the town&#39;s oldest houses, and may be its oldest. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Butterfield-Whittemore House stands on the south side of Massachusetts Avenue in East Arlington, between Fairmont and Lafayette Streets. It is set back from the street relative to the flanking multifamily buildings, and is set slightly askew from the current alignment of the road. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboarded front, and brick sidewalls. The roof is pierced by interior chimneys. The main facade is five bays wide and symmetrical, with the centered entrance sheltered by a gabled porch supported by fluted columns.</p><br>
<p>The earliest part of the house was built about 1695 by Johnathan Butterfield, a field driver in Menotomy, as Arlington was then called. It was sold in 1749 to Samuel Whittemore III, son of the local American Revolutionary War hero of the same name. The locally famous Whittemore was long thought to own this house, but was actually living in a house across Massachusetts Avenue. Greek Revival modifications were made about 1845, and a new porch added circa 1920. Restorations began in 2006 and have since completed. The houses position relative to Massachusetts Avenue is unusual because it is reflective of the roads early 18th century alignment.</p><br>
<p>The Call-Bartlett House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1855, it is one of the town&#39;s finest examples of Greek Revival architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Call-Bartlett House stands on the south side of Pleasant Street (Massachusetts Route 60), roughly midway between Kensington Park and Brunswick Road. The lot on which it stands would historically, and still does, provide a view of Spy Pond, from which it is now separated by intervening construction built after subdivision of the original estate, with the exception of a deeded easement providing pond access. It is a 4-storey L-shaped wood-frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof configuration. The exterior is finished in a combination of flushboarding (mainly on the street-visible sides) and wooden clapboards. The main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the left-side bay, and corner pilasters rising to a full entablature and fully pedimented gable. The entrance is framed by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom window, entablature, and gabled pediment. The leg of the L extends to the left from the rear of the main block, and its front is also flushboarded. The side wall between has a single round-arch window. The pond-facing facade has a two-story Greek temple portico with four columns.</p><br>
<p>This house was built in 1854 for Henry Call, and was for over 40 years the home of George Bartlett. Bartlett was an English draftsman and lithographer, educated at the South Kensington Schools, who played an important role in teaching the arts at the state normal school.</p><br>
<p>Calvary Methodist Church is a historic Methodist church building at 300 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1919-23, the building is a near replica of Boston&#39;s Kings Chapel, executed in wood. Its tower is topped by a belfry designed by architect Charles Bulfinch in 1809 and built for use on Boylston Market; it was rescued from demolition and given to the church in 1921. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Calvary Methodist Church is located on the southwest side of Massachusetts Avenue, southeast of Arlington center. It is a rectangular wood frame structure, with a projecting vestibule and tower. The main block has a hipped roof, and its side walls have four round-arch windows. The projecting is fronted by four Ionic columns, with a square stage above that houses a clock with a single face facing front, and small round windows on the other three sides. This stage is topped by a balustrade, and a flush-boarded stage with wide projecting sections and a dentillated cornice. Above this is an octagonal belfry, with four wide sides housing round-arched louvered openings with engaged columns at the corners. A stepped-back octagonal section tops the belfry, with a concave roof at the very top. A parish house, built in 1953, is attached to the church by a narrow passage.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist congregation first met in Arlington in 1916, and a plan for construction of a church for it soon followed. The present building was designed by James Macnaughton and William Perry, and construction began in 1919. The congregation had difficulty keeping up with the construction costs, and the builder threatened to sell off the partially-finished building for use as a theater. A town-wide appeal raised sufficient funds to cover the costs, and the building was completed in 1923. During the design process, Macnaughton had learned of Charles Bulfinchs planned cupola for Bostons Kings Chapel, which was never executed. He learned of the existence of a Bulfinch-designed cupola that had been installed on the Boylston Market, a Bulfinch design built in 1810 and torn down in 1887. The cupola had been removed in 1886 and purchased by a brewery in Charlestown, which was itself slated for demolition after closing due to Prohibition. The owner agreed to donate the cupola to the church, on condition that its origin be properly credited.</p><br>
<p>Highrock Church is an Evangelical Covenant Church congregation located in Arlington, Massachusetts. Founded in 1999, it occupies the former Saint Athanasius Greek Orthodox Church at 735 Massachusetts Avenue in the town center. The building, constructed in 1841 and restyled in 1860, is a prominent regional example of Italianate ecclesiastical architecture, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Building architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>Highrock Church stands on the west side of Arlington Center, on the north side of Massachusetts Avenue between Central Street and Mill Street. It is a basically rectangular single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It is fronted by a projecting vestibule with elaborate Classical features, capped by an equally elaborate three-stage tower topped by a blue cupola. The interior is more modestly styled.</p><br>
<p>The church building was constructed in 1841 for a Universalist congregation that had broken off from First Parish Congregational Church, which maintained a Unitarian belief. It was originally trimmed with Greek Revival features, and lacked the projecting entry and tower. In 1860 it was substantially altered according to plans developed by ecclesiastical architect Thomas Silloway, which included the elaborate front and a tower with a 90 ft spire. The spire was damaged in the Great New England Hurricane of 1938, and was replaced by the cupola. The church&#39;s architecture is regarded as one of the finest examples of early Italianate ecclesiastical architecture in the Greater Boston area.</p><br>
<p>In 1961, the two congregations reunited at the Unitarian Church. In 1964, Saint Athasius Greek Orthodox Church purchased the building from the Universalists and made the site its home until 2004. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In 2006, the Highrock congregation purchased the building, after the Greek Orthodox congregation moved to a larger structure (the former St. James Roman Catholic Church in Arlington).</p><br>
<h2>Congregation history</h2><br>
<p>The Highrock congregation was established in 1999 in Needham, Massachusetts, adopting the name "Highrock" from the street on which they met. The joined the Evangelical Covenant Church in 2003, and in 2006 purchased this building. In 2008, Highrock launched its first church plant, establishing a new congregation in Brookline. In the summer of 2012, Highrock launched two new church plants in Quincy and Salem.</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Street Congregational Church is an historic Congregational church at 75 Pleasant Street in Arlington, Massachusetts. The church was built in 1844 for a congregation that split doctrinally from the First Parish Church, whose adherents chose to become Unitarian. The church is a fine example of pattern-book Greek Revival architecture. Its steeple was toppled in 1871, and was again damaged by the New England Hurricane of 1938, necessitating steel reinforcements. The interior was restyled in the late Victorian period, and lengthened in 1883 to accommodate increased attendance. The Colonial Revival front entrance dates to the a series of alterations and repairs made after the 1938 hurricane.</p><br>
<p>The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and included in an expansion of the Arlington Center Historic District in 1985.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 the church closed and the congregation was disbanded. The Boston Church of Christ subsequently purchased the church, substantially renovating the 1956 with the addition of a floor of the Pleasant Street facade. The interior of the sanctuary was also substantially altered with the removal of the curved wooden pews and twin pulpits. The Boston Church of Christ holds services there.</p><br>
<p>The First Parish Church Parsonage is a historic parsonage in Arlington, Massachusetts. The two story wood-frame house was built c. 1855 by Nathan Pratt, a wealthy local citizen. He gave half of the house for use as a parsonage for the First Parish Church, a role it served until the end of the 19th century. It was thereafter converted back into a single family residence. The double front entrance has typical Greek Revival features, including sidelight windows and pilasters, while the massing of the house, and its dentiled and bracketed cornice, are distinctly Italianate.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Capitol Theater Building is a historic mixed commercial, residential, and theatrical building at 202–208 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. It was built in 1925 by the Locatelli family, and is one of the area&#39;s finest early motion picture theaters. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Capitol Theater building is a large three-story brick and masonry structure at the northwest corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Lake Street in eastern Arlington. The building is stylistically diverse, featuring elements found in the Classical Revival, Baroque, and early Art Deco styles. The entrance to the theater is found on the long facade facing Massachusetts Avenue, flanked by several commercial storefronts. There is a storefront with an angled entrance at the corner with Lake Street, and another on Lake Street that now provides access to part of the theater lobby.</p><br>
<p>In the late 2000s, the businesses along the stretch of Massachusetts Avenue surrounding the building organized as the Capitol Square Business Association.</p><br>
<h2>Theater history</h2><br>
<p>The theater was designed by William J. Drummey, and built in 1925 as part of the Albert Locatelli chain of theaters. The building cost $500,000 to build, and originally housed 11 stores, office space on the second floor, and 15 apartments on the third.</p><br>
<p>The theater originally had a large pipe organ and seating for 1600 people among an orchestra area and balcony for viewing a stage where, in addition to films, vaudeville acts could be seen. The theater changed owners several times between the early 1930s and 1990 and was multiplexed in 1989. During the 1960s the theater was remodeled to a more contemporary design but the original details including granite columns and gold leaf detail were simply covered over rather than demolished. As a result, during renovations in the 1990s the theater was able to be returned to its former 1930s styling. In the process of multiplex conversion great care was taken to preserve the original aesthetic of the theater and each screening room retains the distinct character of the original space. Theater #1 encompasses the original orchestra seating area, stage and soaring ceilings with gold leaf and plaster details. Other screening rooms now occupy the former balcony and backstage area.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of St. Anne is a historic Episcopal chapel on Claremont Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1915, it is the town&#39;s only work of the architect Ralph Adams Cram, and is an example of Norman Gothic architecture. The chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The chapel is set on the east side of Claremont Avenue in a residential part of Arlington Heights, on the grounds of the Youth Villages-Germaine Lawrence Campus. This property was, at the time of the chapels construction in 1915, part of an Episcopalian orphanage. Ralph Adams Cram designed the chapel, although it is done in Norman style rather than Crams more well-known Gothic Victorian. Its stained-glass windows are by a frequent Cram collaborator, Charles Connick.</p><br>
<p>The chapel is a two-story roughly rectangular stone structure, oriented east-west, with a gabled roof. The stone used in its construction was locally gathered, and integrates a number of unusual features, including a paving stone from the Cambridge sewer system, a 16th-century madonna and child figure executed in Carrara marble, and ecclesiastical wood carvings. It has a gracefully curved apse, and a rose window in the gable at the western end.</p><br>
<p>The Society of St. John the Evangelist (Cowley Fathers) established an orphanage on this property in 1910, and initially held its religious services in a small wood-frame chapel. The present chapel was built to replace that structure. In 1928 the property was repurposed to become the St. Anne&#39;s School for Girls, named for the order of nuns who ran the facility. In 1978 the nuns began to separate the religious aspect from the school, which had come to serve predominantly emotionally troubled children. This resulted in the creation in 1980 of the Germaine Lawrence School, since merged with the Youth Villages organization.</p><br>
<p>Winn Farm is a historic farmhouse at 57 Summer Street in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. The -story wood-frame house is estimated to have been built c. 1820, and is the only surviving farmhouse in northwestern Arlington from that period. 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. Albert Winn, its likely builder, was active in local civic affairs, serving in town offices and as a state representative.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Wayside Inn, once known as the Cutter House, is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The house was built circa 1750 in a simple Georgian style, and is the only half-house of that period still extant in Arlington. The house may have been used as stagecoach stop; it was owned in the 19th century by Philip Whittemore, who also owned a hotel nearer the center. The name "Wayside Inn" was not applied to the building until the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Ralph W. Shattuck House is a historic duplex house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The -story wood frame double house was built c. 1875, and is one of the best-preserved Italianate houses in the town. It has a heavily bracketed cornice line, a bracketed hood sheltering the two entrances, and decorative window surrounds with small brackets at the lintel. It was owned by Ralph W. Shattuck, proprietor of Shattuck Hardware, one of Arlington&#39;s longest-running businesses.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Cushman House  is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in the mid-1880s and moved to its present location in 1896, it is a well-preserved but fully realized example of Queen Anne architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cushman House stands in a residential neighborhood on the south side of Arlington Center, on the east side of Bartlett Avenue midway between Gray and Woodland Streets. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gabled roof and an exterior of wooden clapboards and shingles. It is roughly T-shaped, with its entry porch located in the crook of the T, with turned posts and brackets forming arches supporting the porch roof. The siding at the upper levels is partly standard wooden shingles, and partly scallop-cut rows, giving variety to the surface.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1884-1885 as a rental property by Thomas and John Gray, on the former Fowle estate, and was originally located facing Jason Street. The house was purchased and moved in 1896 by Mr. and Mrs Gardner Cushman, who built their Colonial Revival mansion (72 Irving Street) partly on that land. In 1897, Fannie Cushman sold this house to George and Annie Wentworth, who lived there some twenty years. It is one of Arlington&#39;s best-preserved examples of a modest Queen Anne house, a style more frequently seen than the more elaborate Queen Anne houses found on Pleasant Street.</p><br>
<p>The Ephraim Cutter House is a historic house at 4 Water Street in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built about 1804 by one of the towns leading mill owners, it is one of Arlingtons few surviving Federal period houses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, and included in an expansion of the Arlington Center Historic District in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ephraim Cutter House stands on a side street in Arlington Center, on the west side of Water Street just behind the commercial buildings facing Massachusetts Avenue. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a dormered hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its windows are rectangular sash, topped by delicate eared moulding. The main entrance is at the center of the five-bay front facade, sheltered by a gabled porch. The entrance surround includes sidelight windows and a half-round fan. The porch is supported by fluted columns and pilasters rising to an entablature on the sides, and has a modillioned eave. The porch is likely a later 19th century addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1804 for Ephraim Cutter, owner of Arlington&#39;s largest mill. The house is one of the few surviving Federal period buildings in Arlington, and is notable among those for its elaborate entrance portico. The house was built facing Massachusetts Avenue, but was moved back and rotated ninety degrees to face Water Street in 1915.</p><br>
<p>The Gershom Cutter House is a historic house at 1146 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. 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. The house standing on the site in 1802  was, according to a family genealogy, demolished in 1804. The sixth Gershom acquired the property in 1833 and was married in 1834, and the building itself exhibits late Federal styling. The house remained in the Cutter family into the 20th century, and underwent restoration in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Second A. P. Cutter House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. It is a -story wood-frame structure that is architecturally transitional, exhibiting Italianate massing with Greek Revival decorations. It is three bays wide, with pilasters at the corners, and window surrounds with simple brackets. Its center entrance, now housing two doorways, is sheltered by an Italianate porch with balustrade above. The house was built c. 1855, and is associated with one of several Ammi Pierce Cutters from the locally prominent Cutter family. It was converted to a two-family residence in 1949.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Damon House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Although traditionally associated with the Rev. David Damon of the First Parish Church, this -story wood-frame house was probably built c. 1855, after Damon&#39;s death, by one of his descendants. It is five bays wide, with a side gable roof, and is predominantly Greek Revival in its styling. In 1875 it underwent some alteration, adding the Italianate front portico and small side additions. The house remained in Damon family hands into the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Kimball Farmer House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. This two-story wood-frame house was built in 1826 by Kimball Farmer, a farmer. The chimneys of this Federal style house are placed at the rear, a local variant, and its front entry is framed by sidelight windows topped with Gothic-style lancet tracing in the entablature. The property was owned by three generations of Farmers, and became home to commercial offices and one residential unit for many years during the 20th century. In 2014, the nonprofit affordable housing developer, purchased the site, restored many of its historic features, and created three permanently affordable apartments within it.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Fowle-Reed-Wyman House is a historic First Period house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The house is a two-story wood-frame saltbox structure with integral lean-to, central chimney, and clapboard siding. Built about 1706, it is the oldest structure in Arlington, and is the best-preserved of the three First Period houses left in the town. A c. 1915 addition, sympathetic in style, extends to the rear. The house was built by John Fowle, who had inherited the land from his mother, and was sold the following year to Daniel Reed. From 1775 to 1924 the house was owned by members of the Wyman family.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Hall House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1890 for Mrs. Edward Hall by Charles Bacon, owner of the Felt Mills in Winchester. It is one of the most elaborate treatments of Queen Anne style in the town, with asymmetrical massing typical of the style, Art Nouveau carvings in some of its gable ends, an elaborately decorated porch, and a turret with conical roof. The interior was destroyed by fire in 1893.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Highland Hose House is a historic fire station at 1007 Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington, Massachusetts. The two story brick building was built in 1928 to a design by George Ernest Robinson. His Georgian Revival design emulates features found in Boston townhouses of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and its cupola and grasshopper weathervane resemble that of Faneuil Hall. The station includes a bronze relief of former Chief Charles Goff, executed by noted Arlington resident Cyrus Dallin.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Addison Hill House is a historic house located in Arlington, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built in the first half of the 19th century for Addison Hill, whose family dominated the upland area of Arlington in that period. The house is an excellent local example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate styling. Its basic massing is Greek Revival, as is its front porch, but its eaves have double brackets typical of Italianate styling, and the cupola is also a distinctive Italianate touch.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 27, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Hornblower House and Barn is a historic farmstead in Arlington, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built c. 1830, and was probably moved to its present location around 1850. At that time it also received stylistic modifications, giving it a more Italianate appearance. It was further modified in the 1870s, probably by financier Edward T. Hornblower, of the Boston brokerage firm Hornblower & Page  to add Renaissance Revival elements. A barn, estimated to date to about 1805, stands behind the house.</p><br>
<p>The house and barn were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Orvis Road Historic District is a residential historic district in eastern Arlington, Massachusetts. Built as a planned development between 1918 and 1930, Orvis Road contains a well-preserved collection of single and double-family houses of the period, as well its distinctive landscaping, which includes a grassy median not found in Arlington&#39;s other planned subdivisions. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Orvis Road is located in eastern Arlington, west of Lake Street and south of Massachusetts Avenue, major collector roadways in the area. Prior to subdivision, the land was part of the market garden farmland of John Squire. Development pressures in the early 20th century prompted many garden farmers to sell their land. Squire&#39;s land was attractively sited, with ready access to public transit and the road network.</p><br>
<p>Orvis Road runs north–south between Massachusetts Avenue and Brooks Avenue, with a small circle just south of the latter. The road consists of two one-way sections, divided by a wide grassy median planted with trees and shrubs. The houses that line it are typically wood-frame structures, between 1-1/2 and stories in height, some of which have been finished in stucco. Most of them are stylistically representative of the Colonial Revival of the Craftsman/Bungalow movement. Many of the properties have c. 1920s garages, indicating the growing importance of the automobile to local residents. There are a total of 26 properties included in the district; all front on Orvis Road, except the house at the southwest corner of Orvis and Newcomb Road, which has a Newcomb Road address.</p><br>
<p>The Peirce Farm Historic District is a small historic district within the Arlington Heights neighborhood of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. The district features three houses that are in a transitional style between Federal and Greek Revival styles, dating from the 1830s. The houses are located at 122 and 123 Claremont Avenue, and 178 Oakland Avenue. These three houses were all built by members of the Peirce family, who were among the earliest settlers of the Arlington Heights area, and owned much of its land into the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, where the name is misspelled "Pierce".</p><br>
<h2>J. Peirce House</h2><br>
<p>The J. Peirce House is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof and a central entry with sidelight windows. The form is basically Federal, but the decorative trim elements are Greek Revival in style, except for the early 20th-century entry hood. This house was built c. 1830.</p><br>
<h2>John A. P. Peirce House</h2><br>
<p>The John Peirce House is also a -story wood-frame structure, but it has a front-facing gable and three-bay facade, more firmly in the Greek Revival style. It has corner pilasters and a heavy raking cornice. It was built about 1835.</p><br>
<h2>Thomas Peirce House</h2><br>
<p>The Thomas Peirce House is the most elaborate of the three, with more substantial Greek Revival features than the John Peirce House. It also has the front-facing gable, with paneled pilasters, a full entablature, and a full-pedimented gable. A single-story porch extends across the front and wraps around the side. This house was built about 1850.</p><br>
<p>ArlingtonMA_PierceFarm_123Claremont.jpg123 Claremont St.</p><br>
<p>ArlingtonMA_PierceFarm_178Oakland.jpg178 Oakland St.</p><br>
<p>The William Prentiss House is a historic Greek Revival style house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built c. 1860, it is one of the oldest houses in the Arlington Heights neighborhood of the town. It is 2 and a half stories in height, with a side gable roof that has a large shed-roof dormer. A 20th-century porch extends to the left side, and the centered entrance is sheltered by a modern glassy shallow vestibule. Stylistically, the house resembles a number of houses built in East Arlington around the same time, but is the only one of its type in this neighborhood. William Prentiss, a local farmer, was its first known owner. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Prentiss-Payson House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. This -story clapboarded wood-frame house was built in 1856 for two women named Prentiss and Payson. Its massing and some of its styling is Italianate, but the front door surround, with sidelight and transom windows, pilasters, and triangular pediment, is distinctly Greek Revival in character. A later resident was Prentiss Payson, organist at a local church and a music teacher.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The William Proctor House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built c. 1870, and is a rare local example of Second Empire styling. The house was owned for many years by William Proctor, a bank teller who commuted to work in Boston. Proctor&#39;s son, also named William, was a principal in the architectural firm of Gay & Proctor, which designed a number of Arlington landmarks.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It now houses professional offices.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Rawson Building is a historic multi-unit residence at 68-74 Franklin Street in Arlington, Massachusetts. It is a rare surviving farm worker&#39;s dormitory, built in 1895 by Warren Rawson, a leading garden farmer in Arlington around the turn of the 20th century. It is a long rectangular -story wood-frame building, with its gable end to the street. Access to the inside is via a pair of entrances on the long side which are sheltered by modest porches.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Warren Rawson House is a historic row house at 37&ndash;49 Park Street in Arlington, Massachusetts. This utilitarian wood frame rowhouse was built c. 1885-90 by Warren Rawson, a leading farmer in Arlington, to house farm workers. It is one of only a few such multiunit buildings to survive in the town. The rowhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Warren Rawson rowhouse is set on the east side of Park Street in eastern Arlington, in what is now a densely-built residential area. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with seven essentially identical units in a row. Each unit features plainly-decorated doors, windows, and a gabled dormer at the attic level.</p><br>
<p>Warren Rawson was a leading farmer operating in eastern Arlington in the late 19th century, when garden farming was a major economic activity in the town. This rowhouse is one of two surviving worker housing units he built to house the workers in his farming operations (the other is the Warren Rawson Building on Franklin Street), and are believed to be unique to Arlington. Rawson is documented as having employed as many as 65 workers in his extensive operation, which included the innovative use of steam-heated greenhouses and electric arc lighting. His operations extended from Warren Street to the Mystic River.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred E. Robindreau House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. This house, built c. 1920 and first occupied by a poultry dealer, is a rare well-preserved -story hip-roofed Craftsman/Bungalow-style house in a neighborhood generally filled with Shingle and Colonial Revival houses. It has a hip-roofed front porch supported by clusters of columns mounted on fieldstone piers, and a chimney on the side with an exposed fieldstone base. The eaves of the roof have exposed rafter ends.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Robinson-Lewis-G. F. Fessenden House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1850, and is a well-preserved Italianate style house, with ornate bracketed window surrounds, and a gable-roofed front porch with dentil moulding and full pediment. It was built as a farmhouse in an area that was not developed as a residential subdivision until later in the 19th century, and only had a few houses prior to that development.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Russell Common is a historic row house at 2&mdash;10 Park Terrace in Arlington, Massachusetts. It is located just northeast of the center of town, behind the retail stores on Massachusetts Avenue. It is accessible from the municipal lot behind the Jefferson Cutter House  The -story building is a rare example of a multiunit Shingle style building, and was designed by the locally prominent firm of Gay & Proctor. It was built for its proximity to the railroad, but is now surrounded by the commercial center of Arlington, and a parking lot that was a park at the time of its construction.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Ella Mahalla Cutter Sterling House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1845, and is considered one of Arlington&#39;s finest Greek Revival houses. It was built by Cyrus Cutter, father of Ella Mahalla Cutter Sterling, and member of a family that lived in what is now Arlington since the 17th century. It has a fully pedimented front-facing gable, with a flat-roof single-story porch supported by fluted Doric columns. Corner pilasters rise to an entablature that encircles the building.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Swadkins House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. This -story wood frame was built c. 1882, and features both Gothic and Italianate styling. The gable decorations and porch railing are Gothic, while the house massing and brackets are Italianate, as are the window surrounds and the round-arch window on the right side. It was one of the first houses built when the Crescent Hill area was developed in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was renovated and expanded in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Swan House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1888 by Henry Swan, a Boston poultry dealer who was also active in local politics. The house is a well-preserved example of the sort of late Victorian houses that were once much more typical along Massachusetts Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, and was also included that year in an expansion of the Arlington Center Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Symmes Jr. House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. It is built on land that was held in the Symmes family since 1703, when it was purchased from a Native American. Although it has been claimed to date to 1746, the house was probably built in 1841, and may incorporate parts of an older building within it. The building is one of the finest examples of Greek Revival architecture in Arlington, with a pillared porch on two sides. The house is notable for its association with Stephen Symmes Jr., who bequeathed this property to the town for use as a hospital.</p><br>
<h2>Symmes Hospital</h2><br>
<p>The location of the house on Crosby Street was deemed unsuitable for use as a hospital, and the town was granted permission by the probate court to liquidate the estate and use the proceeds to build a hospital elsewhere. This resulted in the construction of Symmes Hospital in Arlington. Symmes Hospital served Arlington from 1901 to 1999, then stood vacant for several years until finally being torn down in 2008. Finally in 2013–2014, the hospital site was redeveloped as the Arlington 360 residences.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Taylor-Dallin House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The house is notable as being the home of sculptor Cyrus E. Dallin  from 1899 until his death. It is a Colonial Revival/Shingle style -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof studded with dormers, and a front porch supported by Tuscan columns. The house was built c. 1898 by Jack Taylor and sold to Dallin in 1899. Dallins studio, no longer extant, stood in the rear of the property. Dallin was one of Arlingtons most well-known citizens of the early 20th century, and his sculptures are found in several public settings around the town.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Crystal City Internment Camp, located near Crystal City, Texas, was a place of confinement for people of Japanese, German, and Italian descent during World War II, and has been variously described as a detention facility or a concentration camp. The camp, which was originally designed to hold 3,500 people, opened in December 1943 and was officially closed on February 11, 1948.</p><br>
<p>Officially known as the Crystal City Alien Enemy Detention Facility (more commonly referred to as USA Family Internment Camp, Crystal City, Texas), the camp was operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) under the Department of Justice and was originally designed to hold Japanese families, but later held German families, as well, including many who were deported from Latin American countries to the USA A significant number of those incarcerated were native-born American citizens. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. The Crystal City Internment Camp was one of the primary confinement facilities in the United States for families during World War II.</p><br>
<p>The detention camps were described at the time as an "internal security" measure, but are now considered to have been "unjust and motivated by racism rather than real military necessity", as reported by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.</p><br>
<p>The camp held 3,374 detainees on December 29, 1944. This was the maximum it ever held.</p><br>
<h2>Establishment of camp</h2><br>
<p>Crystal City, named after the town it neighbors and located 110 miles south of San Antonio, was one of the largest camps in Texas. Before the war, Crystal City had been a migrant labor camp, built by the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to house an influx of migrant workers who came to farm the area&#39;s most profitable crop, spinach.</p><br>
<p>At the start of World War II, thousands of Japanese and German residents of the USA, including both USA citizens and resident aliens, were arrested and separated from their families during their initial detention. The FSA camp was turned over to the INS to allow these so-called "enemy aliens" to be reunited with their wives and children, and the first group of 35 German families arrived on December 12, 1942.</p><br>
<p>Women and children from Camp Seagoville, which was opened to house Latin American Japanese and became overcrowded with the addition of domestic Japanese American incarcerates, began arriving in early 1943, and their husbands and fathers were transferred to Crystal City from Camp Kenedy and several War Relocation Authority camps, beginning in June. By August 1944, the camp held 2,104 people of Japanese ancestry (about half from Latin America) and 804 people of German descent, housed separately by ethnicity.</p><br>
<h2>The internees</h2><br>
<h3>Latin Americans</h3><br>
<p>Early in the war, in the name of "hemispheric security", the United States government began negotiations with several Latin American countries to round up and deport German and Japanese nationals who had been living in those countries. Upon their arrival in New Orleans, Louisiana, the initial male deportees were arrested on the grounds that they had attempted to enter the country illegally (having been denied visas by immigration authorities) and detained at various INS stations in the region, before being relocated to the internment camps at Kenedy, Texas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Their wives and children followed them later — ostensibly as volunteers, although most families lacked feasible alternatives to deportation.</p><br>
<p>Once incarcerated in the United States, they could then be sent to Germany or Japan in exchange for the return of American citizens and diplomats stranded in Axis nations.</p><br>
<p>Of the nearly 1,500 Latin American Japanese confined in Crystal City during the war, almost 80% came from Peru. The 234 Latin American Germans had been deported from Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Nicaragua, in addition to a few from Haiti.</p><br>
<h3>German and Japanese Americans</h3><br>
<p>The Crystal City camp also held Japanese and German Americans who previously lived in many different parts of the United States. Noncitizen Japanese and German men were arrested in large numbers immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor and forcibly incarcerated in various INS, USA Army, and Department of Justice detention sites before being transferred to Crystal City, where they were reunited with their families. The first German American incarcerees arrived in December 1942 from Ellis Island and Camp Forrest. The first Japanese Americans were women and children brought to Crystal City from Seagoville in March 1943. Additional Japanese Americans were transported by train from western detention facilities and WRA camps in the following months. Most of the Japanese-American incarcerees were transported from the West Coast, while the German Americans were brought from numerous locations throughout the United States.</p><br>
<h2>Internment life</h2><br>
<p>The idea of family internment was a new concept proposed with regards to the detention of German and Japanese aliens in World War II. In the Crystal City internment camp, German and Japanese internees lived separately from one another and were placed in two different sections of the camp. Crystal City INS officials justified the segregation as a way to monitor both groups. The Crystal City Internment Camp received large numbers of detainees from other internment facilities in the United States and the camp became overpopulated.</p><br>
<p>The camp&#39;s German section provided its internees with a German bakery, mess hall, community hall, and cottages. Large German families were given their own cottages that included showers, kitchens, bathrooms, and hot water. A weekly German-language newsletter was published, with the title Unter uns.</p><br>
<p>The Japanese section included a Japanese school, the Federal High School, the Federal Elementary School, a citrus orchard, and several recreational facilities such as tennis courts, basketball courts, a football field, and a swimming pool. The Japanese internees of the camp lived in housing with running water and iceboxes.</p><br>
<h3>Children</h3><br>
<p>Almost all of the children held at the Crystal City internment camp were native-born American citizens whose parents were alien non-citizens. Each child at the Crystal City Internment Camp received a quart of milk each day. Three schools were established: the German School, the Japanese School, and the American Schools of Federal Elementary and Federal High School. The schools provided the interned students with all of the basic programs that schools in Texas were required to have.</p><br>
<p>Established in January 1943, the American School at the Crystal City Internment Camp educated over 1000 students before being closed in June 1946. Most of the American Schools students at Crystal City were Japanese-American internees and a large number of the students were later accepted into various universities in the United States. The parents of German-American students refused to send their children to the American School, preferring education at the German School. The German-American children who transferred into the German School from the American School often struggled in the classroom because they were unable to speak German fluently. The German School and the American Schools had similar enrollments, and each school educated about 350 students. The Japanese School educated about 300 Latin American Japanese and Japanese American students. The Japanese Schools curriculum resembled the curriculum students in Japan received, focusing on Japanese morals, ethics, and physical education.</p><br>
<h3>School closing</h3><br>
<p>On January 24, 1946 Crystal City Internment Camp official J. L. O&#39;Rourke closed the German and Japanese schools and ordered that all remaining students enroll in the American schools. The American schools were then closed on June 28, 1946, but only 16 Japanese students still remained in Crystal City with their parents. The population of the camp was already low because numerous internees were repatriated to their native countries after the war ended. The INS rejected the proposed idea of transferring the Japanese students into public schools near Crystal City. Due to the INS decision and the lack of resources to move elsewhere, the remaining Japanese internees reinstalled the Japanese School.</p><br>
<h2>Camp closing</h2><br>
<p>In 1945, as the war was coming to an end, delegates to the Mexico City Conference on the Problems of War and Peace declared that a person would be subject to removal from the Western Hemisphere should their remaining in the Americas prove "prejudicial" to security, and in September, President Harry Truman issued a proclamation that authorized the deportation of enemy aliens in the USA "without admission under the immigration laws." At the end of the year, the camp still held 3,374 inmates: 2,371 Japanese and 997 Germans, as well as six Italians. By December, 660 Japanese Peruvians (whose country prohibited them from returning) had been transported to Japan and 600 Japanese Hawaiians were returned to their prewar communities. By June 1946, most of the remaining German and Japanese internees, including another 900 Japanese Peruvians, had been deported. Crystal City remained open, however, to house Japanese Peruvians who had refused to participate in the government&#39;s repatriation program. With the help of civil rights attorney Wayne M. Collins, 364 internees filed a lawsuit and, after two years, obtained parole to work at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey. The Crystal City Internment camp was officially closed upon their release on February 11, 1948.</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>The site of the camp is now owned by the local school district, and is marked by a granite stone engraved with "World War II Concentration Camp, 1943-1946", which was installed in November 1985. The Texas Historical Commission undertook archaeological excavations at the site in April 2013, in preparation for nominating the site for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing was approved August 1, 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Notable persons</h2><br>
<p>Yoshiaki Fukuda (1898–1957), a Konko bishop and missionary. Also interned at Fort Missoula and Topaz</p><br>
<p>Major Arthur D. Jacobs USAF, an internee who wrote a memoir of his experiences</p><br>
<p>Ishiko Mori (1899–1972), a physician and a correspondent for the Yomiuri Shinbun</p><br>
<p>Motokazu Mori (1890–1958), a surgeon and tanka poet</p><br>
<p>Isamu Shibayama (1930–2018), a civil-rights activist who fought for the rights of Latin Americans of Japanese ancestry</p><br>
<p>Tokiji Takei (1903–1991), a Japanese poet and essayist</p><br>
<p>Edison Uno (1929–1976), a Japanese-American civil-rights advocate. Also interned at Granada</p><br>
<p>Lt Col USAF retired Adolf “Wes” J Wesselhoeft, born American to parents who were not yet American. Wes was traded into war-time Germany in February 1944. He was allowed to return to the US in 1958. In 2018, he published Wesselhoeft: Traded to The Enemy, a book about his experiences to which his wife also contributed.</p><br>
<p>The United States Post Office—Arlington Main is a historic post office in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1936, this Colonial Revival brick structure is most notable for the mural in its lobby, which was painted in 1938 by William C. Palmer, with funding from the Federal Art Project. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986; it had previously been included in the Arlington Center Historic District in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arlington Post Office is set on the west side of Court Street, a narrow side street just north of Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington Center. It is a single-story brick Colonial Revival building, with a hip roof topped by an octagonal cupola. The central section of the building projects slightly, with three round-arch bays. The central bay is lined with limestone trim, and houses the recessed entrance. A gable roof section has been added to the roof above the entrance to divert rainwater. The building as a whole is a slightly larger version of buildings the Postal Service was building for smaller communities at the time.</p><br>
<p>The interior is organized with the postmasters office to the right of the lobby area, and the public box area to the left, with service counters at the center and a work area behind. The walls above the marble wainscoting include a mural depicting the purchase of land from Native Americans, and agricultural scenes reminiscent of the towns agrarian past. This work was executed in 1938 by William C. Palmer, with funding from the Federal Art Project.</p><br>
<p>This Milestone, carved in 1790, is a historic milestone at the intersection of Appleton Street and Paul Revere Road in Arlington, Massachusetts. It denotes the point at which the historic road from Boston to Concord, Massachusetts was 8 mi from Boston. The road was realigned  in 1811, bypassing the marker. It was moved slightly during road works in 1940, and now sits in a triangular island in the intersection.</p><br>
<p>The marker was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Lt. Benjamin Locke Store is a historic building in Arlington, Massachusetts. It currently functions as a four-family private residence. The -story wood-frame structure was built in 1816 by Lieutenant Benjamin Locke, son of Revolutionary War veteran Captain Benjamin Locke. He established it as a shop to take advantage of the recently established Middlesex Turnpike, which ran past its door. It was converted into a four-family residence in 1854, a role it continues to serve. In 1912, the house was designated as a "pest house" during a smallpox outbreak, but its use was not required.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Capt. Benjamin Locke House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built c. 1720, this -story wood-frame house is one of the oldest buildings in Arlington, with a distinctive place in its history. It was the home of Benjamin Locke, a captain of the Menotomy  Minutemen, and a skirmish of the 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord took place near the house. Locke sold the house in 1780 to a Baptist congregation, and it was used by them for services until 1790, when Locke bought it back. The building was the subject of legal action dealing with the separation of church and state, and was later the home of Locke&#39;s son, Lieutenant Benjamin Locke.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>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. Shaped like an H, it has a hip roof and Renaissance Revival styling. It was built in the site of an older wood-frame school , which was moved and used by the railroad until it was demolished about 1936. In 1984 this building was converted into condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The W.W. Kimball House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built sometime between 1847 and 1865, and is one of two houses  built by John Squire. Squire probably never lived in the house, but sold it in 1865 to William and Nancy Kimball, who apparently rented it out. The house has well-preserved Greek Revival detailing, including a colonnaded porch that wraps around on two sides. There is a period carriage house on the property.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
