Cambridge House Sober Living

Our Story

"If you are serious about recovery and seek a home to trudge the road from, you have found your haven here” Found and continuing inside our gates is sanctuary from the hustle bustle on guard habitus of the outside world of our monster city. Men of good nature, living their own lives, who are inpossession of their faculties and know how to attend to themselves and live independently, we each live our own lives, a relief to leave all that ouside when we come home. Men that know the rudiments of daily life and are living theirs sober, as the house has matured in experience and stature the arena has become one of men that stay and live their lives until it’s ttme for a solid move, in progression of their life building, thisis home. there ar eonly single rooms, that works the bewst for me as I live here myself. the house h Cambridge House is as of 2018 110 years old, yet its quite modern inside yet in keeping of its historic stature as a contributiing structure in the West Adams Harvard Heights tract, it’s homey, its a huge house, two kitchens, and various other areas that were common for it’s time period, the Beverly hills when Beverly Hills was dusty farm land. Cambridge house has been home to at least one world celebrated celebrity athlete. It was designed by a leading architect of the era, Frank M. Tyler it is one of his later works. Ther eis much history here in the area and the house if protected by the dedicated historic area status.

My late partner and I bought our home in 1999 and the two of us knocked around in this 4100 sq ft area until 2007 we retired and thought to become sober living and put the house to use, the house love people so began this voyage of CHSL as recovered, recovering Alcholics who were put together in the rooms both being aolpha personalities, we learnd to live and operaate as a power team and in our years together the rough edges became smooth and so the same of our relationship, both service oriented and when we opened we took on hard cases, the ones that were finished in other facilities and we had good works and sucess within the parameter. It’s a lot of work to get through to those that are on the caurosel anon anon, yet we had good success, we both family oriented became Uncle John and Uncle Richard, We attended physicians diversion once a week for two years and when it was considered that we were stable great things began. Where we did service as visiting observers and examiners of the children and young men in group home in the inner city, we did out work and were loved by all, our findings were transmitted to family court and child protective services. We carved our niche as there was no such other entity doing this work and were able to in four years save up to open a brick and mortar clinic, once physicans probation ended we bacame the protal for physicians in diversion to begin to work again and under supervision and we made progress reports to the Diversion board. This afforded us some of the best physicians, the ones that would push themselves so hard that they used medicine to keep up the pace and run till the wheels fell of in many cases. When my partner fell and broke his neck I carried out what needed to be done to keep things working, its a tough go for two people and for one and the addition of taking care of a partner with a broken neck, for 16 years we were inseperable, seldom did one see us not in company, virtually 24/7 year in year out. he fell to the process of accelerated decrepitude, I hung in there day and night through the end and once I was clear I did collapse and end up in the hospital a number of times in the first year after, I was on drop in status in my professional group of cohorts, and with that safety net and Aa I have gotten through, I was a low bottom drunk after a sucesful 2 decades in business, I was living in my car on the streets unemployable, yet untouchable for reasonds I do no longer share. I did this for a good three years, and one year into sobriety. Ive made it through annealed and stronger and needed the serenity afforded here in the house today, men come here to put their life together, keep it up and know that it’s safe, I am thourugh in my interviews as this is our sanctuary, we do not meddle we do ot palsy walsy though we are civil and friendly, no circus here, down to earth men making the best years yet, Over 100 yars of sobriety here in house, between six men and myself, proven in life and jobs and absolutely having fun outside and the camaraderie of minding our own business and living in a loving home uninterfered with in our personal pursuits, the house is a living being, we know if something is off kilter as our continuium is continious, We did have a house member leave home two years ago, he began to work for the railroad and after 4 years they transfered him to Chicago, Im not in a rush to keep the rooms filled, there is seldom a opening, and ther is a great front bedroom that Im currently using for storage an sorting, when the right one appears it will be filled also, Im exceedingly careful who come in this is a closed house, closed to the outside world, All is on the up and up here.

NEWS FLASH NEWS FLASH, OUR SOLAR SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED YESTERDAY THAT MAKES IT EASIER ON THE BUDGET TO RUN THE AC GREAT THING, .