The flophouse had around 15-20 different rooms, with something different going on in each.
American flophouses date at least to the 19th century, but the term flophouse itself is only attested from 1904, originating in hobo slang.
The hotel was known as a flophouse which provided cheap accommodation to many impoverished and elderly people.
By the 1970s, the building was a flophouse.
The slang term flophouse is roughly the equivalent of common lodging-houses.
Crane himself rented a room in a flophouse near his office and put in several 16 to 20-hour days of the work on the project.
Frantic to leave town and desperately needing to sleep, the penniless man gives the check as security for a 10 cent bed in a flophouse.
He lived in model lodging houses, government-run houses for homeless men, slightly better than flophouses.
