rooming house

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This explosive, eye-opening work came from Ivy League professor Desmond moving to a trailer park and rooming house in a poverty-stricken part of Milwaukee.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

“My mother ran a rooming house on West 77th Street in the 1920s,” Mr. Storch told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

While living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s East 67th Street, he met a blond public school teacher named Marion Raymond who was finishing her master’s thesis.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022

Never before auctioned, the oars were discovered decades ago by a family cleaning out the basement of a Medford, Massachusetts, rooming house they had purchased.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2022

On the day I was leaving, I had checked out of my rooming house and left all my gear on the boat.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson