Kensington Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1887.

From the record

One of 1,353 National Register listings published here for Middlesex County · listed in 1985 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Kensington Park, Brantwood and Kensington Rds., Arlington
When was it listed? September 1985
Category. district
Also known as. Arlington MRA
National Register reference number. 85002679 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Maps showing this location

18 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1887 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
1890 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500
1893 USGS Belchertown quadrangle1:62500 - 8 printings
1908 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1942 USGS Ware quadrangle1:125000
1944 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:31680 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1952 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:31680 - 2 printings
1952 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Albany quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:25000
1967 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Quabbin Reservoir quadrangle1:25000
1985 USGS Holyoke quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1990 USGS Shutesbury quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85002679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Middlesex County	All 1353 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.