boardinghouse
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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
Another is Marie-Christine Lippman, whose family foundation runs a boardinghouse on land owned by Sothea’s family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
Schwartz herself accomplishes something similar across the short subsections of each chapter, slowly and elegantly assembling a sprawling boardinghouse out of the twigs and branches of sometimes little-studied lives.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
Next, Booth visited a boardinghouse on H Street, a few blocks from Ford’s Theatre, to pay what looked like an innocent social call on the owner.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Though made more possible and more desirable by the latest technology, this way of living also recalls the country’s origins, he says, when many otherwise-private homes doubled as de facto inns or outright boardinghouses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Mining offices, a company store and boardinghouses lined the main street.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
He sleeps in boardinghouses and sometimes rough, in the local cemetery.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
They hurried down the dimly lit streets toward the Concord boardinghouses without speaking.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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