Lodging House

A lodging house, or lodge house, is a style of fansite popular in the early Newsies fandom. They were the primary center of the Newsieverse roleplay phenomenon. Lodging houses are characterized by naming style, usually a location in New York City followed by the title of Lodging House, and a standardized page setup, including necessary "bunk room" pages with character profiles (often for original characters featured in fanworks). Additional locations include a storage room or library, hosting fanfiction, and an attic, often including webrings and affiliates. Some pages include a roleplay-style introduction which treats the reader as a new newsie and introduces them to the location. 
Fanfiction hosted at lodging houses almost always centers the original characters, usually newsgirls, said to reside in them. This sometimes means these stories follow entirely original settings only loosely based on the world of Newsies. 
Since most lodging houses are named for locations featured in Newsies, names are frequently repeated. To avoid this, some sites are named for places completely unmentioned in the original movie. Prominent locations like the Manhattan and Brooklyn boroughs are the names of many separate sites. The Brooklyn Lodging House listed on Fanlore does not follow the typical structure and could potentially not be considered a traditional lodging house, instead only being named for one.
==History==
Flare's New York Newsies Union existed in 2011, providing a short, organized list of both fan-made and historical locations, some of them with websites of their own.Lodging Houses and Businesses The page cites Maria Hanton, known online as Goldie, as the original organizer of the Newsgirls' Union, by which the site was inspired.About the Union A masterlist was run by Tuesday and later Angela and Spacey.Masterlist Smaller unions also existed, such as Crivelli, West, & Co.Crivelli, West, & Co., the National Newsies Union,The National Newsies Union and the Newsie Union.The Newsie Union
A 2002 article in the New York Times went into detail on the phenomenon as it originally happened. It pinpoints the origin as Goldie's Lower Manhattan Lodging House in early 1999 (which one site says was March)About the Union. At the time of writing, there were twenty-six connected locations.
Mouse's Midtown Newsies Lodging House, which has been online since 1998, contradicts this order of events.Midtown Newsgirls
Union Timeline.Union Timeline
==Example Sites==
Lodging houses still available to access online, most hosted on Angelfire or Tripod, include the following: 
*1344 South Street (created February 2000)
*The Rose Theatre
*Astoria Lodging House
*Little Italy Newsgirls Lodging House
*The Girls' Midtown Lodging House
*The Docks
*The Brooklyn Lodging House
*Marion Street Lodging House
*Shadow Street Lodging House
*The Midtown Boys' Lodging House
*Grand Street Lodging House
*Duane Street Lodging House
*Central Park Lodging House
*Hoboken Lodging House
*Bogart's House
*The French Quarter Lodging House
*The Ravenswood Lodging House
*Department of Police
*87 Orchard Street
*Manhattan's Girls
==Reflection/Retrospective==
==References==
Category:Newsies Fandom Glossary