The workers lived in boardinghouses and attended church, both built by Merrimack. (businessinsider.com)
It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty - three - year - old first - year teacher thanking her lucky stars that she found a room in the best boardinghouse for Negro women teachers in Wyandotte County, Kansas. (bookbrowse.com)
Roz grew up scrubbing floors in the Brooklyn boardinghouse where she lived. (businessinsider.com)