| The
Patchin Page
4 Patchin Place, May 1958 (photograph by Marion Morehouse) EEC and Marion had a small apartment on the first floor, while Cummings' studio (workroom) was on the third floor at the back. |
A more contemporary photo of EEC's longtime New York City home.
The old Jefferson Market Court at the end of the street, opposite # 4 Patchin. |
LINKS:
James Sibley Watson photo of EEC [on the fire-escape?] at Patchin Place (1925)
Photo of EEC in lower floor sitting room at Patchin Place (c. 1940s?)
Marion Morehouse photo of Patchin Place (1958?)
4 Patchin Place (from a site devoted to the writer John Cooper Powys. The writers John Cooper Powys, Llewelyn Powys, and Alyse Gregory--early Dial editor--lived for a time in the building.)
Berenice
Abbott photos (1936, 1937) of Patchin Place and Jefferson
Market (Museum of the City of New York) [In the first photo, two men
are sitting on the sidewalk steps in front of 4 Patchin. For a sharper
versions of this 1936 photo, see the NYPL Flickr stream,
and/or the NYPL
Digital Gallery. Could the man without a hat be Cummings?]
Historical Markers and the Lower Case Question: http://www.gvsu.edu/english/cummings/caps2.html#plaque
Some Cummings Links . . .