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The building is 23 feet (7.0 m) wide, facing directly onto the sidewalk on the south side of the street, and has a depth of 36 feet (11 m). The building was altered in 1925 to use the first floor as a commercial space. [2] John Surratt purchased the house from Augustus A. Gibson on December 6, 1853, and operated it as a boarding house. [3]
Sherlock Holmes lived in a boarding house at 221B Baker Street, whose landlady, Mrs. Hudson, provided some domestic service. In Look Homeward, Angel, author Thomas Wolfe richly chronicles his life growing up in his mother's boarding house "Dixieland" in early-20th-century Asheville. Addy Walker is a character in the American Girl historical ...
The Nauvoo House in Nauvoo, Illinois, was to be a boarding house that Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his followers began constructing in the 1840s. The boarding house was never completed, but the structure was later converted into a residential home and renamed the Riverside Mansion .
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
A hasukjib (Korean: 하숙집; Hanja: 下宿집; lit. "boarding house") is a type of housing in South Korea that is commonly used by working adults but more popular among university students. Typically, hasukjib take the form of a small room with a single bed, desk and a mini fridge.
In 2013, efforts were being made to save the historic Rooming House from demolition by the City of Tampa. [5] As of January 13, 2014, Todd Alan Clem, commonly known as Bubba the Love Sponge, planned to purchase this property and begin the restoration of the house. [6] Soon afterwards, Clem withdrew plans blaming mayor Bob Buckhorn and city ...
A rooming house, also called a "multi-tenant house", is a "dwelling with multiple rooms rented out individually", in which the tenants share kitchen and often bathroom facilities. [1] Rooming houses are often used as housing for low-income people, as rooming houses (along with single room occupancy units in hotels) are the least expensive ...
Scale models of some Ancient Egyptian house, in the Louvre Minoan house model, c. 1700-1675 BC, terracotta, in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum (Heraklion, Greece) Floor plan of a "foursquare" house. Little is known about the earliest origin of the house and its interior; however, it can be traced back to the simplest form of shelters.