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Article: Rooming houses: Fewer people are on board; Numbers dwindling, but these standbys provide convenience plus affordability.(HOMES)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 18, 1997
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Rooming houses and boarding houses are like mass transit: They appeal to people who want economy, convenience and freedom.
Yet the popularity of such accommodations has been waning, according to Arnold Alanen, a professor of landscape history at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who said that rooming houses today go virtually unnoticed because they are considered a thing of the past.
Alanen has been studying the lives of workers on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota, where boarding houses were an important part of life for miners, primarily Finnish immigrants, who worked long hours and had little time to cook or clean. Many immigrated without ...