Mrs. J.C. Randall's Boarding House

Mrs. J. C. Randall's boardinghouse catered to an upscale clientele. Like Mrs. Andrew Lee’s boardinghouse next door, Randall’s was a handsome, four-story former mansion of dark brick converted into one- and two-room apartments. Her fashionable boardinghouse attracted lodgers a cut above the usual class of laborers and tug men. Her roomers were clerks, bookkeepers, insurance agents, bank cashiers, telegraphers, oil and lumber dealers, surveyors, small business owners, and office managers. And, for two months, a newspaper owner and editor named Mark Twain.

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