Pfaff's Cellar

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Habitués included journalist and social critic Henry Clapp, Jr., Walt Whitman, author and actress Ada Clare, poet and actress Adah Isaacs Menken, playwright John Brougham, artist Elihu Vedder, pianist and composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, actor Edwin Booth, author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, and humorist Artemus Ward.

Opened, 1855

Pfaff's, opened in 1855 by Charles Pfaff, was a famous beer cellar in Greenwich Village, New York City. It became a gathering place for writers, artists, and bohemians, including Walt Whitman and Ada Clare. Henry Clapp, Jr. launched The Saturday Press there, supporting Leaves of Grass and publishing Mark Twain.

Moved, 1870

Pfaff moved his business to Midtown. The original location became a factory, then a disco, and later a restaurant.

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Walt Whitman,Whitman wrote about Pfaff's in Specimen Days after a visit to the restaurateur's newer location of Pfaff's Cellar. Whitman also wrote an unfinished poem about Pfaff's called "The Two Vaults,"

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