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North side of Chestnut between 7th and 8th.

One of the few remaining clapboard structures in Manhattan is 17 Grove Street.

"Twin Peaks", behind it.

In 1920 Mathilda Daily of York, Pa., bought 17 Grove Street, a wooden house at the northeast corner of Grove and Bedford, next to 102 Bedford. Built in 1822, 17 Grove had just been converted to bachelor apartments and had a small back shed, 100 Bedford Street.

She leased out that tiny rear building as a tea room, The Little House, a typical Village enterprise.

In April 1925 he began work on a $14,000 alteration to the old building, extending its height to five stories with what the building application described as a ''saw-tooth roof.'' On May 21, 1926, one of the most peculiar dedications in New York building history took place, as Daily finished the building he christened ''Twin Peaks,'' for its medieval-style roof.

The Herald Tribune reported that the actress Mabel Normand stood on a platform on top of one of the gables and shattered a bottle of Champagne over the roof. Next to her, Princess Amelie Troubetskoy (an American novelist who had married a Russian prince in czarist days) burned acorns in a charcoal brazier in honor of the Greek god Pan. Holy water, flowers and other rites also inaugurated the building.