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of a three story witfi flanking addiIts heavy Mansard roof modified central tower crowns a main block of surface embellishments. windmill once located to ?r of this structure blew during a storm in 1889. :: in 1875 as Barnard's it is better known as the :- Ring Sanitorium. :l nearly 500 feet above ~l, it was built during the phase of Arlington " development. During . ~ 19th c., well-to-do Vicsuffering from real and ,ed ailments such as .a, malaria, insomnia, .3 prostration, brain fag nervous diseases," were ::d to this area's "health air" and natural beauty. height in the mid 1930's .itorium comprised a large 'x of buildings. Its more ~ished guests in this cenincluded Mayor Curley and singer arland. h,.,."~",,e<arI 18 Oakland Avenue, c. 1893 Susan Hartley Swett House With its square plan, sawcut cornice brackets, and hip roof, this house stands as a good example of vernacular Italianate style residential architecture in Arlington. Its banded slate roof is its mOst unusual embellishment. During the 1890's and early 1900's, Susan Hartley Swett, a short story writer and poet, lived in this simple house. Miss Swett was among the · many writers, artists, and teachers who were attracted to Arlington Heights' rusticity in the early years of suburban development. Since 1914, his "Young Hunter at the Spring" has graced the grounds adjoining Arlington's Robbins Library. He also modeled the figures which decorate the base of the Arlington Town Hall's flagpole and include Squaw Sachem, a Minuteman, a minister and a mother and child. A faculty member of the Massachusetts College of Art for twenty-four years, Dallin served on the Arlington Planning Board and was a trustee of Arlington's Robbins Library and Symmes Hospital. At his death in 1944, he was eulogized as "the-Dean of American Sculptors." ":f:. .\ Heights. Essentially of a tangular plan, its porch SWf around its southeastern ~ and is crowned by a pagodaroof. The main facade's w overhanging bay is echoed in porch's pediment. In the ce of the main facade's gable recessed triple window. 178 Oakland Avenue, c.l830 Thomas Pierce House This home is one of Arlington's 69 Oakland Avenue, c.l898 Cyrus Dallin House . one of approximately ten structures which were the Little Scotland secArlington Heights. Essenunembellished and funcin design, this simple is well-balanced and :ically pleasing. To the . the building is a smaller of similar age and ap:e. The home and studio of American sculptor, Cyrus E. Dallin (1861-1944), this structure is a blend of Shingle and Colonial Revival Style characteristics. For forty-four years, Cyrus E. Dallin, internationally acclaimed sculptor, lived in the large residence at the comer of Oakland Avenue and Cliff Street in Arlington Heights. Among his most famous commissions are the "equestrian statue of Paul Revere," 'The Signal of Peace" (exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893), "The Medicine Man" and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' "Appeal to the Great Spirit." finest Greek Revival residences, with a characteristic off-center doorway, incised pilasters which support a heavy entablature and fully enframed flush-board pediment, and a doric-oriented . porch encircling the south and east facades. This house is notable for its large lot and mature vegetation which affords a rare glimpse at Arlington as it looked in the first half of the 19th c. Pierce family members were among the first to settle in the Arlington Heights area after the War of Independence. Until the end of the 19th c., this area was considered one of the wildest and least accessible in the Town. 163 Park Avenue,c. 1875-1898 Flora V. White House Were it not for its aluminumsiding covered walls, 163 Park Avenue would rank as one of the purest examples of Shingle Style architecture in Arlington 223 Park Avenue, c. 1875 J.O. Hilliard House The Hilliard House is one of ington's IIiost fully deveIl Stick Style residences. horizontal siding of its fac exhibits applied horizontal vertical boards or decor: "stick work." The clipped I exhibits a collar brace ~ forms a wide arc across the . of the gable. A turned ~ links the collar brace witl gable's eaves. To the right modified tower with ste pitched roof. The ground Windows are decorated triangular window caps tangle of trees and shrubs Pliment the romantic sensi of the architecture. The } Was once owned by Dr. A H. Ring, Director of the SanitOrium.