boardinghouse

Located on Main Street in an 1897 brick building, this inn, restaurant and saloon originally served as a boardinghouse for Homestake Gold Mine miners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by William Styron, this Academy Award-nominated film follows the increasingly intersected lives of three residents in a Brooklyn boardinghouse in 1947.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

When we returned to Chicago and our familiar room in the boardinghouse, I did not exactly dive into my lumpy bed like a pig into a mud bath.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Young farm women lived in boardinghouses, working 12-14 hour days for cash wages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

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