Here is a bird’s-eye engraved view of Lovecraft’s 66 College Street in 1908, before the building of the Library on the corner. From the book Memories of Brown (1909). The house is set back from College Street in a garden court.

The John Hay Library is the large white squarish building see in this newly-found a view of College Hill in summer 1959. Lovecraft’s house just visible in original position next to the Library…

Compare with 66 College Street seen from the ground…

The John Hay Library would be built on the corner seen to the right of Lovecraft’s house in the 1908 picture, the Library rising where this former “President’s House” had stood…

The house next to it was also taken for the Library.


Below is the bird’s-eye scene seen the other way, looking at the vantage point from which the above 1959 telephoto picture was made. Here it’s 1962 and the building being torn down is opposite the Van Wickle gate and on the opposite corner to the John Hay Library (top of College St.).

This 1946 view, looking west from a similar spot at the top of College Hill but this time looking through the elm trees, is also indicative. The roof of the John Hay Library is seen on the right of the picture, and the Industrial Trust building can just be seen in the distance on the left.

And here the Industrial Trust building (the main slim tower seen in both pictures above) looks back again, in a telephoto view down on Lovecraft’s house in late January 1929.

I’m uncertain what the two long white marks are. They may be damage, as there appears to be a patch of damage below them with a small ‘x’ on it. Update: by referencing against the 1959 picture, it can be determined that the long white streaks are very tall thin chimneys emerging from the rear section of an adjacent house.


There are also a number of bonus pictures, for my Patreon patrons, showing the site of Lovecraft’s house and garden after it was removed but before the Brown arts block was built on it.