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
Georgia Kemp, a cook at the Elks Club, invited him to move into her rooming house at 20th Avenue and East Madison.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2022
“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
Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
