Adrian,  For a year long Ph.D. seminar I researched the evolution of a block
located in Portland, Oregon's cbd.  There were 2 boarding houses from the
late 1880s on the north half of the block.  The paper gives an interpretive
look at the block, including the two boarding houses, and discusses the
changes that occurred to the buildings over time as a result of the southern
expansion of the cbd.  Additionally, I look at the class and ethnicity of
the people occupying the buildings on the block from the 1880s up to 1910.
The paper also discusses the vice commission's investigation of  3 of the
buildings on the block including the 2 boarding houses.  It is now a parking
lot that is eventually going to be transformed into a park. Originally, it
was to be the site of my dissertation work but the city's timing and my
timing did not jive.  In fact, the block is still a parking lot.  If this
sounds applicable to your student's work contact me at [log in to unmask]
and let me know where to send a copy of the paper.  Julie Schablitsky
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Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:31 AM
Subject: Boardinghouse sites?


HISTARCHers,

A student of mine is writing a thesis on the archaeology of a late-19th
century residential boardinghouse-hotel and is looking for references to
reports on similar sites.

I'm encouraging her to be less concerned with finding comparative
assemblages, than in tracking down imaginative interpretive/theoretical
approaches. Seems like there's little new under the sun since Beaudry et
al. dug up the Boott.

Thanks.

Adrian Praetzellis
Sonoma State University