The Brooklyn Museum is selling off its four period rooms (Neoclassical, Greek Revival, Southern USA, Gilded Age). The rooms in the Museum are said to have recreated the original dimensions and orientation, as well as the furnishings and fittings. The news and disposal are quite sudden and it’s reported the contents are to be auctioned by Brunk Auctions later in March 2024.

These were presumably the rooms were once admired by Lovecraft. We know he did the Museum solo in May 1930, seeing the new ‘Colonial furniture and interiors’ wing which newly offered complete rooms arranged for Lovecraft’s lingering delight. I imagine that the politically incorrect “Colonial” word of the 1930s now = the more innocuous “Neoclassical” and “Greek Revival”, but I’m certainly no expert on American architectural periods and I could be wrong. He likely visited the rooms several times over the years, and in one letter he also enjoyed the “new dutch rooms”.