youth hostel

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Marshall’s plans to demolish a former youth hostel built during the Art Deco period to make way for a sports field was blocked by the Historic Preservation Board, which mandated he preserve the building’s facade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

For 60 years from 1945 the castle was a youth hostel, but during World War Two it had served as a sanctuary for members of the Norwegian royal family after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2023

In 1964, representatives of Melbourne’s New Theater came to the Aboriginal youth hostel where he was living to cast an all-Indigenous production of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun.”

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2022

Luxembourg City’s youth hostel, which is just one of more than 3,000 locations within the Hostelling International network, was extensive.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2022

Now, in the youth hostel, Jule put down Our Mutual Friend.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart