What is now known as the Millay House, at 75 1/2 Bedford St. in Manhattan’s West Village, was built around 1850 in a 9.5-foot-wide former passage for horse-drawn carriages. The interior is a foot narrower at the widest point, in the kitchen. The narrowest room, the master bedroom, measures just 7 feet 4 inches. In all, it spans 990 square feet.
The home is named after one of its famous tenants, the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who lived there in the 1920s. Actors Cary Grant and John Barrymore also lived there; as did the really wonderful author and illustrator William Steig (who wrote the original “Shrek!”), his wife, and his wife’s sister, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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