70 Bedford Street
New York, United States
Presenting New York City's unofficial narrowest building coming in at only 9 feet and 6 inches in width or 2.9 meters.
The house was constructed in 1873 for Horatio Gomez, trustee of the Hettie Hendricks-Gomez Estate.
In 1923, the house was leased by a consortium of artists who used it for actors working at the nearby Cherry Lane Theate which included Cary Grant and John Barrymore.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, and her new husband, coffee importer Eugen Jan Boissevain, lived in the house from 1923 to 1924. They hired Ferdinand Savignano to renovate the house. He added a skylight, transformed the top floor into a studio for Millay and added a Dutch-inspired front gabled façade which we see today.
Later occupants included cartoonist William Steig and his sister-in-law, anthropologist Margaret Mead. The house is currently up for sale!
