boardinghouse
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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
Meanwhile, she took odd jobs, working as a maid at a boardinghouse, an office clerk, a stock clerk, a secretary in the state grain office and an assistant in a lawyer’s office.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 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
He took a room with three other men in a colored boardinghouse in Five Points and hung a shingle as a barber until he met the famous Eugene Wheeler.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Bed-and-breakfast hotels turned into cheap boardinghouses, attracting Britain’s sickest and poorest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Tourists jammed hotels and boardinghouses, but they were not the only newcomers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 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
Driscoll lived in boardinghouses to avoid cooking and house cleaning.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Others were big two-story duplexes, built as boardinghouses for bachelor miners in the booming 1920’s and later sectioned off as individual family dwellings during the Depression.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
