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Title: Greenwich Village

Author: Anna Alice Chapin

Illustrator: Alan Gilbert Cram

Release Date: October 19, 2005 [EBook #16907]

Language: English

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[Illustration: MILLIGAN COURT. A typical, fragmentary survival
of Old Greenwich.]

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,"--an