Welcome
Arlington Friends House is a Quaker-founded cooperative in Arlington, just outside Boston. We share a large Victorian house with seven bedrooms and four common rooms, including the kitchen, dining room, living room, and music room/library. An intentional community of seven, most of us are single adults, but we've also included small family groups.
We welcome Quakers and non-Quakers. Our community draws members from backgrounds as diverse as Buddhism and Catholicism, and from areas as far away as Australia and as close as Cambridge. Many residents have had ties with local divinity schools.
Because we're a small household, we make most day-to-day decisions as a group. We keep all our food in common, and enjoy communal dinners seven nights a week (each of us cooks once a week). We also share house chores, including shopping and cleaning, and hold house meetings twice a month.
What makes Arlington Friends House work is a shared belief in simple living, and an active commitment to community. We enjoy working together, on household tasks, and playing together -- hiking, singing, playing music, games, meeting each other's friends and family, planning outings, celebrating each other's events.
We’re lucky to live in a beautiful historic neighborhood, with a wooded park up the street! However, we're only blocks from Mass. Ave. and public transit. It's an easy walk to the library, Town Hall, post office, grocery stores, and local shops. Local bus lines connect us to Cambridge and the Boston subway system (MBTA). The Minuteman Bike Path provides a tree-lined ride west to Lexington or east to Alewife.
Our specific Quaker practices include different aspects of simple living (carpooling, recycling etc.), as well as house meetings that follow the model of the Friends Meeting for Business. We share silent grace before our common meals. Most Quaker residents of Arlington Friends House have attended Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston or Friends Meeting at Cambridge.
We welcome Quakers and non-Quakers. Our community draws members from backgrounds as diverse as Buddhism and Catholicism, and from areas as far away as Australia and as close as Cambridge. Many residents have had ties with local divinity schools.
Because we're a small household, we make most day-to-day decisions as a group. We keep all our food in common, and enjoy communal dinners seven nights a week (each of us cooks once a week). We also share house chores, including shopping and cleaning, and hold house meetings twice a month.
What makes Arlington Friends House work is a shared belief in simple living, and an active commitment to community. We enjoy working together, on household tasks, and playing together -- hiking, singing, playing music, games, meeting each other's friends and family, planning outings, celebrating each other's events.
We’re lucky to live in a beautiful historic neighborhood, with a wooded park up the street! However, we're only blocks from Mass. Ave. and public transit. It's an easy walk to the library, Town Hall, post office, grocery stores, and local shops. Local bus lines connect us to Cambridge and the Boston subway system (MBTA). The Minuteman Bike Path provides a tree-lined ride west to Lexington or east to Alewife.
Our specific Quaker practices include different aspects of simple living (carpooling, recycling etc.), as well as house meetings that follow the model of the Friends Meeting for Business. We share silent grace before our common meals. Most Quaker residents of Arlington Friends House have attended Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston or Friends Meeting at Cambridge.
