Editing Greenwich Village (section)

====Isaacs-Hendricks House====

The oldest house remaining in Greenwich Village is the Isaacs-Hendricks House, at 77 Bedford Street (built 1799, much altered and enlarged 1836, third story 1928).<ref>{{cite book |first=Kevin |last=Walsh |title=Forgotten New York: The Ultimate Urban Explorer's Guide to All Five Boroughs |year=2006 |page=155}}</ref> When the [[Church of St. Luke in the Fields]] was founded in 1820, it stood in fields south of the road (now Christopher Street) that led from Greenwich Lane (now [[Greenwich Avenue]]) down to a landing on the North River. In 1822, a [[yellow fever]] epidemic in New York encouraged residents to flee to the healthier air of Greenwich Village, and afterwards many stayed. The future site of [[Washington Square Park|Washington Square]] was a [[potter's field]] from 1797 to 1823 when up to 20,000 of New York's poor were buried here, and still remain. The handsome Greek revival rowhouses on the north side of Washington Square were built about 1832, establishing the fashion of Washington Square and lower Fifth Avenue for decades to come. Well into the 19th century, the district of Washington Square was considered separate from Greenwich Village.

In 1825, the ''Commercial Advertiser'' was writing that "Greenwich is no longer a country village. Such has been the growth of our city that the building of one block more will connect the two places" of Greenwich and New York.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Strausbaugh |first1=John |title=The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village |date=April 2013 |publisher=Ecco |location=New York City, USA |isbn=978-0062078193 |page=13}}</ref> By 1850, the city had developed entirely around Greenwich Village such that the two were no longer considered separate.