4 Patchin Place

West Village | built 1848

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1848
The row houses of Patchin Place are built
The ten three-story brick row houses of Patchin Place, a cul-de-sac, were put up in 1848 or 1849. The street is named for Aaron Patchin, who received the land from his father-in-law, Samuel Milligan. It became landmarked in 1969 as part of the Greenwich Village Historic District.
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1923
E. E. Cummings moves into 4 Patchin Place
The poet E. E. Cummings lived at 4 Patchin Place from 1923 to 1962. He wrote that the top-floor back room there meant "Safety & Peace & the truth of Dreaming & the bliss of Work." Other residents of the street included Djuna Barnes, John Reed and Theodore Dreiser.
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1929
John Cowper Powys writes home about changes near No. 4
British novelist John Cowper Powys is listed as living at No. 4 Patchin Place from 1923 to 1929, in the same house where E. E. Cummings had moved in. In a 1929 letter to his brother, Powys described new iron gates at the entrance to the court and the demolition of the nearby Jefferson Market prison. With the prison gone, he wrote, the Woolworth and Singer towers could be seen from the entrance.
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