Carol Janeway was active in the preservation of Greenwich Village starting in the late 1940s.
12 Facts About Carol Janeway
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Carol Janeway had three successive studios in Greenwich Village until the early 1950s when she worked out of her home in Milligan Place in Greenwich Village.
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Carol Janeway was featured in a 1945 issue of Life Magazine for her work with ceramic tiles.
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Two such Carol Janeway plates appeared in the 1948 Wedgwood exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Carol Janeway designed and produced a line of ceramic chess, backgammon, and checker sets.
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Carol Janeway decorated many tile fireplace surrounds installed mainly in the New York area.
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Works by Carol Janeway are held by few museums, despite claims in her obituary.
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When Carol Janeway was not serving on the CB2, she regularly attended the meetings.
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Carol Janeway formed the Committee for the Preservation of Patchin and Milligan Place for this purpose.
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Carol Janeway distinguished herself as a witness by reporting in The Villager newspaper a four-article series describing her treatment by the prosecutor in the Grand Jury.
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Carol Janeway eloped in 1932 with fellow Cornell student Eliot Janeway and kept the name after the failure of the marriage in 1934.
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Carol Janeway lived in London from 1933 through 1939 with various trips to Moscow, Paris, Capri.