Arlington, 1884

Description

O.H. Bailey & Co. positioned the viewer south of Arlington center, looking north across Spy Pond toward Mystic Pond on the horizon. Twenty-seven structures are indexed, including six churches and eight industrial operations. The ice-cutting industry on Spy Pond was among them. Arlington in 1884 was transitioning from the farming village once called Menotomy into a residential suburb connected to Boston by rail, and the composition captures both identities: factories along the water, houses spreading across the hills.

Spy Pond in the middle ground. Ice was harvested from its surface and shipped by rail to Boston.
The twenty-seven indexed buildings include six churches; their steeples are visible across the skyline.
Mystic Pond sits on the horizon. The view extends far enough north to include the next town's landscape.

Design

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