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In 1961, Vera Coking and her husband bought the property at 127 South Columbia Place as a summertime retreat for $20,000. [1]In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million ($5 million in 2023) [2] for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino.
Articles relating to boarding houses, houses (frequently family homes) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied.
Raritan Bay Union was started by Marcus Spring and his wife Rebecca Buffum Spring (1811–1911). [1]Theodore Dwight Weld was in charge of the connected boarding school, active from 1854 until c. 1861.
The Bay Head Historic District is a 440-acre (180 ha) historic district in the borough of Bay Head in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.This residential district located along the Atlantic Ocean was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on February 1, 2006, for its significance in architecture and transportation from 1877 to 1940.
Married women who boarded with their families in boarding houses were accused of being too lazy to do all of the washing, cooking, and cleaning necessary to keep house or to raise children properly. [3] While there is an association between boarding houses and women renters, men also rented, notably the poet-authors Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan ...
Michigan teenager Elijah Goldman arrives at a Florida airport on Sept. 3, 2024, after being stuck for a year in Jamaica, where he said he was abused at a boarding school, but that his adoptive ...
With the removal of the meal service of boarding houses, rooming houses needed to be near diners and other inexpensive food businesses. [8] Rooming houses attracted criticism: in "1916, Walter Krumwilde, a Protestant minister, saw the rooming house or boardinghouse system [as] "spreading its web like a spider, stretching out its arms like an ...
Natirar is an estate spanning 491 acres (1.99 km 2) in Peapack-Gladstone, Far Hills and Bedminster, in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. Its name is a reverse spelling of Raritan . The complex was built between 1905 and 1912, when the main residence was completed.