boardinghouse

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Eventually, Frieda leaves and moves into Gulls Nest, a seaside boardinghouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

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

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

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

They spent days searching the records of every hotel, boardinghouse, and real estate office they could find, “all,” Geyer said, “to no purpose.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson