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Patchin Place Doors
I had a request from a fellow blogger to show the home of E. E. Cummings (1894-1962). The charming alley he lived in is called Patchin Place next to Jefferson Market Library.
The property that became Patchin Place and Milligan Place was once part of a farm belonging to Sir Peter Warren. In 1799 it was sold to Samuel Milligan, who later conveyed it to his son-in-law, Aaron Patchin. The buildings that now occupy the site were put up in 1848-1852 as boarding houses for Basque waiters and other workers at the nearby Brevoort House hotel on 5th Avenue.
A story: The then modernist writer Djuna Barnes (1982-1982) moved into a room-and-a-half apartment at 5 Patchin Place in 1941. She became so reclusive that Cummings would occasionally check on her by shouting out his window “Are you still alive, Djuna?”.
- For Norm’s Thursday Doors 6/7/2018
- Patchin Place (Wikipedia)
1 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
2 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
5 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
7-9 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
4 Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Patchin Place, NYC 6/1/2018
The even more charming private Milligan Place around the corner on 6th Avenue.
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Milligan Place, NYC 6/1/2018
Casa del Popolo doors
A Mediterranean touch to in Greenwich Village Manhattan.
For Norm’s Thursday Doors 5/10/2018
Barn – One Photo Focus
I edited Cee Neuner’s photo of a barn donated for the April One Photo Focus challenge. After some Lightroom tweaks I brought it into Photoshop. I used spot healing, content aware fill, and cloning to remove the modern electrical wires. Then I used on1 to add a subtle antiqued look. After that I added adjustment layers in Photoshop; such as, color inversions, overlays, brightening and darkening, colored gradient, and grayscale. I converted a copy of the image layer to outlines and inverted it which created white outlines on the flowers to give it a bit of extra punch. I changed the color of the roof and brushed in a patina, added some early morning mist, and my final added flourish is the weathervane (open source).
