The little wood-framed house and its idyllic garden look out of place in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. With lots of fascinating corners and angles, the two-story building is dwarfed by those surrounding it on Charles Street. It is one of the oldest homes in the Village, but it was not constructed there. The wee, white-clapboard home began life as a farmhouse on the Upper East Side. It earned the nickname Cobble Court because of the cobblestones that surrounded it and paved its front entrance. Over time, buildings rose…
