![]() The next day I visited the house and ascertained that it was a very comfortable two-story-and-attic house, extremely well built, in an unobjectionable neighborhood, only a few steps from the Ninth Avenue omnibus service. Moore, our "Night Before Christmas" poet, and belonging to one of the professors in the Union Theological Seminary, which we might rent or buy. "It curiously happened that, on my return to my wife that evening, she told me of a friend of hers who was just about leaving a house in Twenty-second Street, just opposite the then residence of Clement C. ![]() ![]() I think the Bigelows must have lived across from the Moores starting in about 1851 or 1852. I remembered John Bigelow making a reference to this house in his autobiography, so I just looked it up. I assumed Moore's house on West 22nd Street was long gone, so I'm happy to learn it survived. ![]()
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