In July 1953, the Ladies Christian Union received a letter from Jean Marie Laguardia at Mademoiselle Magazine. The women’s magazine requested updated information on the LCU’s boarding houses for young ...

Once upon a time, boys and girls, before Airbnb and Virbo, there was something known as a boarding house. People, usually women, rented out rooms in their houses, generally to single men and women.

Carol Burnett has long told stories about her early days in New York City living at a boarding house for women pursuing a career in the arts — and now, she says she’s turning those stories into a TV ...

Kate Quinn’s new novel, “The Briar Club,” begins with a mysterious new tenant, Grace March. Grace rents the attic room of the established Briarwood House Inn, a boarding house inhabited by several ...

The types of housing single women were afforded in Chicago at the turn of the century say a lot about society and residents.

BLOOMINGTON — Back in the 19th century, long before high-rise dormitories, condominiums, townhomes, assisted living communities and other such arrangements, boarding houses played an important role in ...

In the early 1900s, Butte was home to hundreds of boarding houses. The homes, which varied greatly in size, were used mostly by single, male miners. They offered a bed, meals and sometimes laundry ...