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

She also ran a boardinghouse near Harvard from 1869 to 1873.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2023

In the 1940s, the mansion was converted to a boardinghouse, then it fell into disrepair.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

Two more of Washington’s “people”—a groom named Giles and a coach driver named Paris—stayed nearby in a boardinghouse.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis