During America’s century-long ascent from sleepy colonial backwater to great industrial giant, the urbanization of the country was funneled through a consistent apparatus: the boarding house. As ...

Chris Benz’s Victorian farmhouse in Bellport, New York began as a boarding house, so the kitchen was the original working ...

In 1651, Peter Stuyvesant established two farms far north of New Amsterdam. The lane that separated Bouwerij #1 and #2 would ...

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.

A 115-year-old building in downtown Asheville will be converted into a 10-room boutique hotel. Developers plan to preserve ...