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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.<ref name=MACRIS/>
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 [[Richard Clipston Sturgis|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 Edwin Dallin|Cyrus Dallin]] can be found on the grounds including [[Menotomy Hunter|The Menotomy Hunter]] and The [[Robbins Memorial Flagstaff]]. The [[Cyrus Dallin Art Museum]] in the [[Jefferson Cutter House]] at 611 Massachusetts Avenue maintains the world's largest collection of Dallin's sculptures and paintings
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