Reimagined Quaintness →
The Times Streetscapes column is unfailingly fascinating, and I always marvel at how little I know areas where I’ve lived and worked for years. Sunday the column looks at Greenwich Village houses fancifully renovated in the early 1900s:
[T]he most striking makeover is surely that at 114 Waverly, a brownstone rebuilt in 1920 by a portrait painter, Murray Bewley, for himself.
Bewley’s architect, William Sanger, was married to the birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, and had been jailed in 1915 for distributing her pamphlet “Family Limitation.” Alexander Berkman, Carlo Tresca and other radicals attended his trial, during which Justice James J. McInerney said that people who distributed information on birth control were “a menace to society.”
