Our Households
St Mary's House
​​​Neighborhood: Dorchester
Congregation: St Mary's Episcopal Church
Located near the original location of St Mary’s Episcopal Church, a vibrant Afro-Caribbean congregation in Upham's Corner, the St Mary's House is committed to hospitality and hosting, regularly welcoming community members in for dinners, craft nights, and compline. The St Mary's House was also our first time purchasing a property, and our only house with a sauna in the basement!
Emmanuel House
Neighborhood: Allston
Congregation: Emmanuel Church
Emmanuel House is committed to hosting community space for contemplative repose, urban agriculture, and arts events. They live in a historic “Tudorbethan” single-family home in Allston that shares a campus with The Allston Abbey next door. Their community life includes cultivating a community garden in their yard where neighborhood members are invited to relax, connect, and help themselves to the harvest.
Trinity House
Neighborhood: Newton Centre
Congregation: Trinity Parish
Trinity House is dedicated to the care and formation of graduate students, particularly those at Boston College and Boston University. Housemates engage in cross-discipline dialogue, commiserate about the demands of school, and share the joys and responsibilities of a communal home life. They set aside time to tend to their shared and individual spiritual lives, and value the unique and generative experience of living in community during the liminal space of graduate school.
Jubilee House
Neighborhood: Dorchester
Congregation: New Roots AME Church
Jubilee House is an intergenerational household that sustains a multi-use venue for restoration, spiritual practice, and cultivating authentic relationships. The host gatherings for community building and education; ministries of food, hospitality, mutual care, and cooperative economics; developing social justice practices; studying movements of the natural world; community gardening and food forestry. Jubilee House is our first fully wheel-chair accessible house as well as our first house completely free of fossil fuels.
Seventy-Seven
Neighborhood: Jamaica Plain
Seventy-Seven is simultaneously Creche's oldest and newest intentional community: it was founded in 2010 and pre-dates Creche by several years (and was a significant inspiration for Creche's model)... and then it joined Creche in 2025! Seventy-Seven has a powerful ministry of offering no-questions-asked, rent-free hospitality to people who need it for up to three months at a time, and has helped many, many people through tough transitions over it's decade and a half of life.
