DOORWAY, 16-18 CHARLES STREET
Between Greenwich Avenue and Waverly Place
JUNE 1, 1938. ABBOTT FILE 302

This house belonged to a row of 11 houses built in 1845-46 by carpenter Patrick Cogan. Abbott was drawn to the doorway, the result of an eccentric renovation of unspecified date. Nos. 16 and 18 were combined with one of the original door frames and oval windows installed at the basement-level entry. The fanciful ironwork canopy and the flagstone sidewalk made Abbott's straightforward document into a maze of graphic patterns.

As part of the Greenwich Village Historic District (1969), the house remains the same today, although it is painted pink. According to its current tenant, the house and a dozen others in the neighborhood were purchased in 1956 by a man who painted them in his daughter's favorite color.

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