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
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
She also ran a boardinghouse near Harvard from 1869 to 1873.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Fellow lodgers at his New York City boardinghouse worried as the typically cheerful, young Fairbanks grew gloomy and distracted.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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
He sleeps in boardinghouses and sometimes rough, in the local cemetery.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2020
Her inexhaustible kindness drew customers to her boardinghouses, restaurant and after-hours club, but it was her indomitable strength and discipline that allowed her businesses to flourish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Geyer knew what to look for in Detroit and, with the assistance of another police detective, once again began a patient canvass of hotels and boardinghouses.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
