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 ...

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