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VILLAGE VOICES: Margaret Wise Brown
Margaret Wise Brown May 23, 1910 – November 13, 1952 Children’s Book Author and Poet Many marvelous books, including the beloved classic “Goodnight Moon,” were written in this crooked clapboard…
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 2: Basquiat, Blackwell, and Brown
…the exhibits available online. Today we explore three more of our 31 shadowboxes from the event, covering Jean-Michel Basquiat, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Margaret Wise Brown. Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat’s career…
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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…his window: ‘Are you still alive, Djuna?’ She died in 1982, the last surviving English-language modernist. 3. Margaret Wise Brown, 121 Charles Street The Goodnight Moon author never actually lived at 121 Charles…
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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village
…was known to check up on her by shouting through his window: ‘Are you still alive, Djuna?’ She died in 1982, the last surviving English-language modernist. 3. Margaret Wise Brown,…
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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Street – Margaret Wise Brown’s Writing Studio The incredible Cobble Court (left), and Margaret Wise Brown (right) This most unusual home is also known as Cobble Court; before the house…
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VILLAGE VOICES
…Eustis, and other Village residents and supporters who lent their voices to this project. Berenice Abbott W.H. Auden James Baldwin Jean-Michel Basquiat Elizabeth Blackwell Margaret Wise Brown e.e. cummings Merce…
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O Pioneers! Two Remarkable Women of Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell
…where Margaret Wise Brown wrote Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown As a side note, it is interesting that Bank Street once was a thoroughfare. Village Preservation has recently come to…
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121 Charles Street, from Yorkville to the Village
…view. The property became known as Cobble Court because of the cobblestones that paved the area between the two houses. Author Margaret Wise Brown in the doorway of the house…
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One Small Step for Man…One Giant Leap for 121 Charles Street!
…its own “Goodnight Moon Landing” when the house of Margaret Wise Brown, author of the famous children’s book Goodnight Moon, was moved from 1335 York Avenue to its present location…
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The 10 most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…and a courtyard paved with cobblestones, from which its name “Cobble Court” is derived. The building was also used as a residence, most notably by Margaret Wise Brown, who wrote…
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Upper East Side Farmhouse to Village Treasure- 121 Charles Street
…was farmhouse on the Upper East Side. It then served as a restaurant for a short time, and in 1946, Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, rented the house…
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Landmarking 101: The Case of 121 Charles Street
…1940s by Margaret Wise Brown, author of the children’s picture book Goodnight Moon. A couple decades later, when the house was slated for demolition by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…rear lot at 71st Street & York Avenue, where it was occupied briefly in the 1940s by Margaret Wise Brown, author of ”Good Night Moon.” A couple decades later, when…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…it was occupied briefly in the 1940s by Margaret Wise Brown, author of ”Good Night Moon.” A couple decades later, when it was slated for demolition by the Roman Catholic…
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VILLAGE VOICES: A New Interactive Art and History Exhibit
…Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Wise Brown, E. E. Cummings, John W. Draper, Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Larry Kramer, Joan Mitchell, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Oliver Sacks,…
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Wanda Gág: Village Eccentric, Artist, and Cat Storyteller
We’re on a roll with children’s book writers of the Village! Read our previous posts about E.B. White, Robert McClosky, Margaret Wise Brown, Maurice Sendak, and Otis Kidwell Burger. Though…
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121 Charles Street
121 Charles Street The Margaret Wise Brown House at 121 Charles Street (at the corner of Greenwich Street) is one of the most historically significant buildings in our neighborhood. Press…
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The oldest house in the Village? It’s not what you think
…“Goodnight Moon House” as it’s sometimes known (Margaret Wise Brown wrote the book while living in the house in the 1940s) has a good reason for looking out of place…
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Village Voices Annual Benefit Preview: Reading the Village
…writers and musicians, including James Baldwin, Henry James, W.H. Auden, Lorraine Hansberry, e.e. cummings, Oliver Sacks, Larry Kramer, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and Margaret Wise Brown. As a preview to…
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Ingrid Bernhard
…“the Goodnight Moon” house, as writer Margaret Wise Brown wrote the book while living there. In 1967, the Bernhards moved the house to 121 Charles Street in order to preserve…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…occupied briefly in the 1940s by Margaret Wise Brown, author of ”Good Night Moon.” A couple decades later, when it was slated for demolition by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of…
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