A boarding house is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, or years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and
One of the last remaining textile mill boarding houses in Lowell, Massachusetts, on right; part of the Lowell National Historical Park
Early-20th-century dinner in a miners' boarding house in northern Canada
Maroochydore Boarding House, Queensland, circa 1917
Old Boarding House Recovery Engagement Center, Bloomington, Indiana, US
A rooming house, also called a "multi-tenant house", is a "dwelling with multiple rooms rented out individually", in which the tenants share kitchen and often bathroom facilities. Rooming houses are o
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…disabilities or children unable to live with family, share characteristics with boarding houses. A lodging house, also known in the United States as a rooming house, may or may not offer meals. Single-room occupancy (SRO) buildings rent individual rooms to residents and have a shared bathroom; some may have a shared…
A rooming house in the Lummus Park Historic District in Miami
The Liverpool House, a rooming house in Seattle, in 1909
A rooming house in Oklahoma in 1959
A rooming house and floor plan for Moore's Rooming House in Elko, Nevada