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Maroochydore Boarding House, Queensland, circa 1917. Boarding houses were common in most US cities throughout the 19th century and until the 1950s. [3] In Boston, in the 1830s, when landlords and their boarders were added up, between one third and one half of the city's entire population lived in a boarding house. [3]
African American hotels, motels, and boarding houses were founded during segregation in the United States, offering separate lodging and boarding facilities for African Americans. The Green Book (1936–1966) was a guidebook for African American travelers and included hotel, motel, and boarding house listings where they could stay.
The Liverpool House, a rooming house in Seattle, in 1909. Prior to the 1920s, commercial rooming houses were often former boarding houses. After the US Civil War, boarding houses became less common, declining from 40% of rental listings in 1875 (in San Francisco) to 10% in 1900, and less than 1% by 1910. [8]
Communal dining area of a Common lodging-house in New York, circa 1910 Children within a Common lodging-house, Christmas 1910. Urban reformer Jacob Riis was not only an advocate for improving the condition of people living in cheap lodging houses; he had lived in them as a young man, an experience he described in his slum memoir How the Other Half Lives (1890).
Jennie Barmore (popularly known as "Typhoid Jennie") was the operator of a boarding house in Chicago from 1910 until about 1920 who was placed under an involuntary quarantine by the Chicago Health Commission in 1919 after being deemed an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid.
After undergoing an extensive renovation, a landmarked house built in 1924 on Seaspray Avenue in Palm Beach has sold for $10.4 million to a couple from Virginia.. The deed recorded April 2 shows ...
Carlton House is a heritage-listed boarding house at 3 Mill Street, Toowoomba, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1875 to 1900s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 31 October 1994.
The Traymore Hotel was a resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Begun as a small boarding house in 1879, the hotel expanded and became one of the city's premier resorts. As Atlantic City began to decline in its popularity as a resort town, during the 1950s and 1960s, the Traymore diminished in popularity.