Nelson City Dance Hall & Party Ranch

Facilities
Outside Entrance
Welcome!

Step through these gates to a 1929-style Texas dance hall and western-themed facility suitable for weddings & receptions, birthday and anniversary parties, and business meetings & presentations.

Front of the Dance Hall

The 1929-style two-story dance hall is complete with porch and stairs. It faces the open lower courtyard.

Front of the Dance Hall
Outdoor Staging or Reception Area
Upper Courtyard

The open concrete floor courtyard just inside the entrance and above the plaza and dance hall can be used as an outdoor staging area for guests or members of a wedding party. It can also serve as an outdoor reception area for a business meeting or other gathering.

Lower Courtyard

The open outdoor plaza is between the porch of the dance hall and the backdrops of the western town and below the dance hall by a few steps and below the ramp from the outdoor courtyard. This area can serve as a wedding ceremony site, dinner location, or outdoor reception. 150 people can be seated.

Plaza
Lower Courtyard facing the road
Plaza
Lower Courtyard with chairs set up facing the hill

Entrance to the Dance Hall

The dance hall's long porch, running the entire length of the dance hall, offers a location to visit and enjoy the air and ambience of the Texas Hill Country. The porch railing and the stairs themselves offer a site for staging photographs.

Porch, left view
Porch from the west
Stairs leading into the dance hall entrance
Stairs leading up into the dance hall
Porch, right view
The entire length of the porch as viewed from the east

Dance Hall Foyer
Looking towards the bar from the foyer.
Foyer, in from the doors.
Looking to the right of the foyer, showing the area available.
The dance hall features a long bar to the left of the foyer.
The foyer is the first area visitors come to once through the dance hall doors. The dance floor itself is beyond.
The foyer is not just right in front of the doors. Rather, there is additional area for tables to the right. This area has been used for tables accomodating the bride and groom cakes and wedding presents.

Dance Floor
Dance floor facing the pool room.
Dance floor looking from the back.
Dance floor facing the bandstand.
The dance floor, as seen from the bandstand and facing the game room. Beyond the dance floor itself, there is room for six to eight tables between the bar and the stairs leading up to the second story.
The dance floor, as seen from the back of the dance hall, with many tables in the way.
The dance floor, as seen from the second floor above the game room, is crowned with a elevated bandstand. The dance floor offers a 50' x 50' area. The bandstand is 35' wide by 25' deep.

Additional Seating
As many as 10 tables can be placed in the back seating area.
Seating area between the dance floor and the very back of the building.
Seating area behind the stairwell.
There is a cozy area of seating behind the stairwell. As many as four tables can be placed here.