Patchin Place

Patchin Place is a gated, dead-end alley tucked off West Tenth Street, identifiable by the iron gate at its entrance and its ten small, three-story brick row houses. Developed in eighteen forty-eight or eighteen forty-nine by Samuel Milligan, the cul-de-sac was named for his son-in-law, Aaron Patchin. While local lore often links the residences to the Basque staff of the nearby Brevoort House hotel, that hotel was not built until eighteen fifty-five, years after the alley’s construction.