Barrow Street
Named after Thomas Barrow, an artist who in 1807 drew a picture of Trinity Church that received wide circulation as a print. Trinity Church was a large landowner of property in Greenwich Village due to a land grant from Queen Ann[e]. The street was known as Reason Street, in honor of Tom Paine’s ‘The Age of Reason”. Paine died at nearby 59 Grove Street, common usage corrupted “Reason” into “Raisin”. Both the church and the community promoted the renaming to Barrow Street.
Marker is at the intersection of Barrow Street and Bedford Street on Barrow Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
