The Boardinghouse in Nineteenth-Century America

Index

index Abrams, Carrie, 46, 54 advertisements, 39–40; for boarders, 9, 35–36, 37–38, 43, 56, 188n22; by brothels or houses of assignation, 30, 102, 103; by potential boarders, 37 African Americans, 2, 86, 90, 120, 136; boardinghouses kept by, 35, 39, 57–58, 120; discrimination against, 31, 57, 130 Alcott, Louisa May, 109 Alger, Horatio, 159 All Around the House (Eunice Beecher), 124, 125 amenities. See bathtubs; electricity; heating; indoor toilets; parlors; “private tables”; running water American Seaman’s Friend Society, 142 American Woman’s Home, The (Beecher and Stowe), 58–59, 70 apartment hotels, 138 apartments, 20, 116, 139, 165–166 Arthur, T. S., 5–6, 55, 105, 107–108, 111, 123, 129 assignation, houses of, 30, 102 Association for the Relief of Aged and Indigent Females, 145 attic rooms, 45 Atzerodt, George, 109 baking, 61, 83–84 bargaining, 46, 54 Barker, Antoinette Hutches, 20–24, 45, 66, 71, 130–137 Barker, Richard, 12, 20, 32, 131, 134–135, 137; boarding experiences of, 20–24, 41, 51, 66, 71, 90, 91, 99–100, 115 Barnum, P. T., 115 Barrows, Sarah, 44 bathrooms, private, 36 bathtubs, 71, 134 bed-and-breakfasts, 8 bedbugs, 66, 70, 73 Beecher, Catharine, 58–59, 62, 63, 64–65, 70, 83 Beecher, Eunice, 116, 119–120, 124–125, 128, 130 Beecher, Henry Ward, 124–125 Benedict, Fannie, 66, 68, 69, 74 benevolent institutions. See homes, institutional Bennett, Mary, 103 “Blessings in Disguise” (Arthur), 5–6 boarders, 57, 72–73, 92–94, 104; complaints by (see complaints by boarders); conflicting expectations by, 46, 71, 73–76, 89; “day,” 8; elderly, 17–20; getting and retaining, 35–39, 46–49, 65; married-couple, 20, 116–118, 128–130, 130–137; mix of, 13, 17–18, 19, 24, 27–28, 31–32, 62–63, 102; nonpayment by, 46, 47–49, 52–53, 54, 101; nursing of, 19; screening for respectability of, 56, 57–58; sharing of rooms by, 13, 41–42; single young men as majority of, 41, 42, 88; socializing and friendships among, 14–15, 18–19, 21–24, 28, 41, 131, 133; strong bargaining power of, 46, 54 boarders (term), 140 boarding: confusing terminology for, 3; difference from lodging, 78; in early nineteenth century, 2–3; importance to boarding (continued) urban growth, 3; motives for, 118–119, 130–131; seasonal, 57; as widespread phenomenon, 3–4, 89. See also boarders; boardinghouses boarding homes. See homes, institutional boardinghouse (term), 16–17 “boardinghouse districts,” 40 boardinghouse keepers. See landladies boardinghouse reach (term), 92, 167 Boarding House Reach, The (comic play), 168 boardinghouses: acquisition of, 17, 39–40; African American, 35, 39, 57–58, 120; brothels as, 30, 57, 97, 102; class differences among, 16–17, 29, 34–35, 40–41, 43–44, 49, 92, 94; clientele of (see boarders); disguising of, 34, 36, 38, 113; as “families,” 13–14, 15–16, 18, 19–20, 32; food in (see meals); great variety of, 8–9, 34–35, 38– 39; home-marketplace boundary blurred by, 9–10, 32, 67, 73–76, 94–95, 170; keeping of (see landladies); mixed-sex composition of, 30–31; “public,” 8, 38–39; racial/ethnic exclusion in, 31, 57; relation to marketplace, 74, 76, 78; sailors’, 57, 73, 141–143, 145; servants in, 35, 55–56, 60, 61–62, 71, 90, 108; space allocation in, 40–42; waning of, 8, 116, 165–169 boardinghouses, comparisons of: to actual private homes, 74, 78–79, 91, 99; to idealized homes, 1, 2–3, 7–10, 35, 67–68, 69–70, 102, 113; to institutional homes, 140–141, 149, 151, 163, 164; to lodging houses, 8, 78, 167 boardinghouses, negative images of, 1–2, 59, 67–70, 85–87, 95, 102–103, 152–153, 167–169; and alleged moral danger, 102–114, 127–130; boarders’ expectations influenced by, 32–33, 43, 87; fading of, 169–170; and taint of marketplace, 1–2, 7, 42, 67–68, 71, 110. See also humor directed at boardinghouses; landladies, negative images of Boarding Out (Hale), 69–70, 129 Boardman, James, 42 Booth, John Wilkes, 96 Boston, Mass., 2, 26, 143–154, 156–157; African American boardinghouses in, 35, 39, 40, 58; boardinghouses in, 11, 37, 45, 47, 48, 50, 55–56, 80, 109; class distinctions among boardinghouses in, 34–35, 38–39; Mrs. Haskell’s boardinghouse in, 12–17, 40, 52–53, 56, 91 Boston Home for Aged Women, 145–151 Boston Pilot, 2 Boston Seaman’s Friend Society, 142–143, 144. See also Sailor’s Home (Boston...