Baptist Society Meeting House

The Baptist Society Meeting House is a historic former Baptist meeting house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1790, it is the town's oldest surviving church building.

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Type: Building
Description: church building in Massachusetts, United States of America
Address: 5 Brattle Street, Arlington, MA

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Arlington Gaslight Company and Arlington Pumping Station.

Arlington Gaslight Company

Historic building

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The Arlington Gaslight Company is an historic industrial complex in Arlington, Massachusetts. It is one of the town's few large-scale examples of industrial architecture, built for a local fuel company in 1914. Arlington Gaslight Company is situated 1,600 feet east of Baptist Society Meeting House.

Arlington Pumping Station

Pumping station

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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. Arlington Pumping Station is situated 660 feet north of Baptist Society Meeting House.

Old Schwamb Mill

Museum

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The Old Schwamb Mill is an historic 19th-century mill at 17 Mill Lane in Arlington, Massachusetts. It claims to be located on the oldest continuously used mill site in the United States, with a documented history of operation dating back to about 1684. Old Schwamb Mill is situated 2,700 feet northwest of Baptist Society Meeting House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arlington and Peirce Farm Historic District.

Arlington

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Arlington is a town of 46,000 people in Massachusetts. It is a largely residential town; many of its residents are employed in Cambridge, Boston and surrounding towns.

Peirce Farm Historic District

Neighborhood

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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.

Kensington Park Historic District

Neighborhood

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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.

Baptist Society Meeting House

Category: church
Location: Town of Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.42069° or 42° 25′ 15″ north

Longitude

-71.16965° or 71° 10′ 11″ west

Elevation

89 feet (27 metres)

Levels

Open location code

87JCCRCJ+74

OpenStreetMap ID

way 196450666

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

4929711

Wikidata ID

Q4857679

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