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Two sisters working at a modest boardinghouse prepare for the arrival of a Hollywood screenwriter and his family.
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
At its peak, Edgewater was home to 200-300 residents, living in 20 to 30 houses, with the company store housing a post office, hotel/boardinghouse and general store, along with a blacksmith shop, horse barn and school, Heiman said.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 31 Oct. 2025
The daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper, Mary moved with her mother to Manhattan and, as a teenager, began working behind the counter at John Anderson’s Liberty Street Cigar Shop in Lower Manhattan.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
At its peak, Edgewater was home to 200-300 residents, living in 20 to 30 houses, with the company store housing a post office, hotel/boardinghouse and general store, along with a blacksmith shop, horse barn and school, Heiman said.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 31 Oct. 2025
The daughter of a widowed boardinghouse keeper, Mary moved with her mother to Manhattan and, as a teenager, began working behind the counter at John Anderson’s Liberty Street Cigar Shop in Lower Manhattan.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Down the beach Madam LeFleur stood on the porch of her boardinghouse beating slugs off a yak wool rug.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Boardinghouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boardinghouse. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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boardinghouse
noun
board·ing·house
ˈbōrd-iŋ-ˌhau̇s 
ˈbȯrd-
: a house at which persons are boarded
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