Friends Meeting House
5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA

Friends Meeting is located off Brattle Street outside Harvard Square
in Cambridge.  It may be best to arrive early or to use public
transportation, as parking near Harvard Square is limited.


MASS TRANSIT

Take the red line to Harvard Square station.  Expect the T from
Braintree to take 45 minutes and from Alewife to take 25 minutes.
Transit maps are available at the MBTA web site: http://mbta.com .

Walk to Friends Meeting via Brattle Street.  There is a Brattle 
Street exit at the extreme West end of the T station, beyond the 
indoor bus stops and furthest from where you disembark the train.
Alternatively, from the main exit you are looking across a red brick 
plaza bordered in front of you by Kennedy Street.  Brattle begins
right there across Kennedy; cross the street and walk on the right
hand side of the street and then another red brick plaza.

Go West(WNW) on Brattle to Longfellow Park (5-10 minutes), the mall
across Brattle from Longfellow National Historic Site, a well-marked 
yellow house with white trim on the right side of the street.
    http://nps.gov/long (Longfellow house from the other perspective;
it will be on your right with the mall on your left)
Looking down the mall with the NHS behind you, #5 is the second-last
building on the right, with a small "Friends Meeting" sign in front.

DRIVING FROM MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIKE, I-90

Cambridge exit to Cambridge Street (Doubletree Suites on right).
Go straight, cross-river to next light (Memorial Drive). Left onto
Memorial Drive (US 3, MA 2) for 3 lights (boathouse on left at 3rd
light). Go straight and make right turn at second street on right
(Hawthorne, not marked) after JFK School of Government to next light.
Left onto Mt Auburn Street, go one street to Willard Street.  
Turn right onto Willard, follow to Brattle.  Turn right on Brattle one
street to Longfellow Park, right onto Longfellow Park.

Longfellow Park is the mall across Brattle from Longfellow National
Historic Site, a well-marked yellow house with white trim on the left
side of the street.
    http://nps.gov/long (Longfellow house from your perspective,
just before you should turn right down the mall)

DRIVING FROM MASS PIKE I-90 or FROM POINTS NORTH I-95/Rte.128
TO LONGFELLOW NHS/HOUSE/PARK/MALL --BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
    http://nps.gov/long/pphtml/planyourvisit.html

PARKING

Some parking is available in the small lot behind the meeting house
(about 5 spaces).  On Saturdays there is also public parking on 
Longfellow Park (about 20 spaces).  Brattle Street has some spaces, 
but the side streets are for residents only.  There are two parking 
garages in Harvard Square: Charles Square (under the Charles Hotel) and
University Garage.  There is also a small public lot under the Harvard
Motor Inn off Mt Auburn Street and a small private lot on Church Street.