Grace rents the attic room of the established Briarwood House Inn, a boarding house inhabited by several single women eking out a living in Washington, D.C., during the years of 1950-1954.

This is a corporation boardinghouse, where mill workers, mostly young women aged 15 to 35, lived during the early decades of Lowell's textile mills (mid-1800s). To learn about what is pictured here, ...

Puente, a grandmother who ran a local boarding house, would ultimately die in prison in 2011 after she was convicted of three of the nine murders she was suspected of committing during the 1980s.