boardinghouse
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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
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
I was three or four and we’d lived at a boardinghouse across the street.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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
Mining offices, a company store and boardinghouses lined the main street.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
Dr. Taft sends a soldier to search nearby boardinghouses for an empty room.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
