Greenwich Village

								


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    GREENWICH VILLAGE

                                  By



                           ANNA ALICE CHAPIN



                 Author of "Wonder Tales from Wagner,"

                       "Masters of Music," etc.

                         WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

                          ALLAN GILBERT CRAM

                               NEW YORK

                        DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

                                 1925

                          COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY

                     DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

To
VINCENT C. PEPPE
WHO FIRST SUGGESTED THE WRITING OF THIS BOOK, AND WHOSE UNTIRING
EFFORTS HAVE HAD MUCH TO DO WITH THE SUCCESS OF GREENWICH VILLAGE AS A
POPULAR RESIDENCE SECTION,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I.    THE CHEQUERED HISTORY OF A CITY SQUARE
II.   THE GREEN VILLAGE
III.  THE GALLANT CAREER OF SIR PETER WARREN
IV.   THE STORY OF RICHMOND HILL
V.    "TOM PAINE, INFIDEL"
VI.   PAGES OF ROMANCE
VII.  RESTAURANTS, AND THE MAGIC DOOR
VIII. VILLAGERS
IX.   AND THEN MORE VILLAGERS



      A LAST WORD

ILLUSTRATIONS

Milligan Court                         Frontispiece
Map of Old Greenwich Village
Oldest Building on the Square
Jefferson Market
The Cradle of Bohemia
Old St. John's
Washington Arch
The Butterick Building
59 Grove Street
Grove Court
The Brevoort House
Grove Street
The Dutch Oven
Patchin Place
Washington Square South
Macdougal Alley
A Greenwich Studio

A FIRST WORD

"'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls,"--and, to my mind,
Greenwich Village has a very personal soul that requires very personal
and very careful handling. This little foreword is to crave pardon
humbly if my touch has not been light, or deft, or sure. There are so
many things that I may have left out, so many ways in which I must
have erred.
And I want to thank people too,--just here. So many people there are
to thank! I cannot simply dismiss the matter with the usual
acknowledgment of a list of authorities--to which, by the bye, I have
tried to cling as though they were life-buoys in a stormy sea of
research!
There are the kindly individuals,--J.H. Henry, Vincent Pepe, William
van der Weyde, J.B. Martin, and the rest,--who have so generously
placed their own extensive information and collected material at my
disposal. And there are the small army of librarians and clerks and
secretaries and so on, who have given me unlimited patience and most
encouraging personal interest.
And finally, beyond all these, are the Villagers who have taken me in,
and made me welcome, and won my heart for all time. Everyone has been