Adrian,

If 1840 -1844 time period is relevant, then there's a case from Harpers
Ferry.  The renters (i.e. the wife) at Park Building 48 ran a boarding
house.  This affected the landscaping of the dwelling as it was the only
period for which gardening, both flowers and vegetables (i.e. maize) occur.
Look at Paul Shackel's "Domestic Responses to 19th Century
Industrialization:  An Archaeology of Park Building 48, Harpers Ferry
National Historic Park." Occas. Rep. Series of the Reg. Arch. Program,
Report #12. (Write to Regional Archaeologist, Nat's Capital Region, NPS,
1100 Ohio Dr., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20242 -- for a free copy if any are
left.  My chapter on phytoliths and Linda S. Cummings on pollen and
macrofloral remains, document the ethnobotany associated with the presence
of a boarding house.  This was also written up (in less detail) in SHA's
journal -- Historical Archaeology -- a few years ago -- a special volume on
Harpers Ferry.

Cheers,

Irv Rovner


>From: Praetzellis <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Boardinghouse sites?
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:31:30 -0400
>
>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

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