boardinghouse

At Mrs. Riley’s boardinghouse, Ryui is taken under the wing of Torajiro “Jack” Baba, a cynical photographer with an avant-garde aesthetic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025

Soon there was hardly room in his moldering Cotswolds mansion for his second wife, Elizabeth, who eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Torquay, an English working-class seaside resort.

From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

All five of them shared a single room in a Ballard boardinghouse next to the restaurant where her father worked.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

Major W. H. Smith went to Surratt’s boardinghouse to arrest the residents and search the house.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Ludlow and Cornelia are the young lovers whom William Dean Howells brings together in a novel set amid the art schools, boardinghouses, drawing rooms and artists’ studios of late-19th-century New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Activities at recreational camps and boardinghouses were limited by the presence of wildfires in parts of the country, and the industry still hasn’t fully recovered after the declines recorded in May and June.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

He sleeps in boardinghouses and sometimes rough, in the local cemetery.

From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020

Her inexhaustible kindness drew customers to her boardinghouses, restaurant and after-hours club, but it was her indomitable strength and discipline that allowed her businesses to flourish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019

Together Geyer and Cuddy scoured the hotels and boardinghouses of Toronto and after days of searching found that here, too, Holmes had been moving three parties of travelers simultaneously.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson