Around arose the characteristic buildings for digest and boardinghouses such as taverns. Antebellum Velasco had business houses, homes, a hotel, boardinghouses, wharves, and a customhouse. By 1873 six bathhouses and 24 hotels and boardinghouses stood near the springs. In 1868, New York State started cracking down on sailors' boardinghouses. A few years later, many of the boardinghouses were destroyed as well. Similarly, "McDonald v. United States" had extended constitutional protection to tenants in boardinghouses. Some of the other children ran hotels or boardinghouses. Prior to the 1920s, commercial rooming houses were often former boardinghouses. In the late 1880s, Cashman set up several restaurants and boardinghouses in Arizona.