Henry F. Fullerton, principal of school 16, lived at this home in the 1880s. The Allentown Association gives this architectural overview: “At number 12 Arlington Place stands a two-storey Empire cottage built late on the street, in 1878. The cottage is covered by a straight sided Mansard roof supported by a moulded wood curb. Flat-headed and corniced dormers surrounded by carved and capitaled pilasters expand the roof line beneath the curb. A two-storey bay on the east side of the house incorporates a Tshaped chimney stack with a delicately corbeled peak. A full entablature separates the stories. A tower with a pyramidical roof overhangs the front entryway, which is enclosed by a porch whose roof is incorporated in the entablature. The cottage is one of a very few small-scale homes built in the Second Empire style. The difficulty of adapting the Empire style to a diminutive form is beautifully overcome in this example.”
