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Kensington Park Historic District

The Kensington Park Historic District of 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jason Russell House and Whittemore-Robbins House.

Museum
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The is a historic house in , in and around which at least twenty-one colonial combatants died fighting on the first day of the American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775.

Public building
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is a public building.

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The includes the civic and commercial heart of . 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arlington and Orvis Road Historic District.

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

Neighborhood
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The is a residential historic district in eastern . 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's other planned subdivisions.

Neighborhood
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also known as "Area 12", is a neighborhood of bounded by the railroad tracks on the north and east, the town line on the west, and on the south.

Kensington Park Historic District

Latitude
42.40871° or 42° 24′ 31″ north
Longitude
-71.16311° or 71° 9′ 47″ west
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
Open location code
87JCCR5P+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358279237
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­district
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
4941241
Wiki­data ID
Q6391471
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“Kensington Park Historic District” goes by many names.
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