Location for monthly dance parties and special events

Payson Park Church UCC parish hall
365 Belmont Street, Belmont, Massachusetts

FAC’s dance space in the parish hall of the Payson Park Church is located at 365 Belmont Street at the corner of Payson Road in Belmont, MA, a few blocks from Cushing Square. The church, a stone building with a tower, is across the street from the Oakley Country Club. Parking is available on nearby streets. The #73 bus from Harvard Square to Waverley Square stops on Belmont Street near the church. Enter the parish hall part of the building by the red door on the left.

Alternate locations for monthly dance parties and special events

Arlington Masonic Temple

Masonic Hall at the Arlington Masonic Temple (click for map), 19 Academy Street, Arlington Center, Arlington, MA
Parking is available on nearby streets and in the parking lot behind the Arlington Senior Center at the corner of Academy and Maple Streets. Please enter the Masonic Temple by the front door.

First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton parish hall

1326 Washington Street, Newton, Massachusetts

FAC’s dance space at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton Parish Hall is located at the corner of Washington and Highland Streets in West Newton, near where Route 16 crosses the Mass. Turnpike. The FUSN church is across the street from the Newton Police Station and a block west of the West Newton Cinema. The double-door Washington Street entrance at the west end of the church building leads directly to the air-conditioned Parish Hall. There is also an entrance from the small lot for staff and handicap parking behind the church, off Highland Street.

Except where marked otherwise, parking is allowed on Highland Street (beside the church) and along Davis Street (left turn off Highland). There is limited metered street parking on Washington Street. There is additional public parking in lots across Washington Street: on the left off Cherry Street, which is directly across from the church, and at 492 Waltham Street beyond the CVS lot, in the Family ACCESS of Newton lot.

There is also limited parking in the Santander Bank lot (across Highland Street from the church) when the bank is closed. Note that this lot enforces the restrictions on many of its spaces at all times, and violators are towed:

  • No parking along the bank building wall.
  • No parking in the 5 spaces along Highland Street that are closest to the bank.
  • No parking in the 5 spaces near the dumpster.
  • Parking allowed only in clearly designated spaces (white lines on either side).