Entrance to Wilbraham Academy, Mass. Note the curiously Eastern looking sculpture on the frontage, with the light-globe resembling a turban.
“I tarried eight days in Wilbraham, picking up many strange legends of great interest to me, since both Mrs. Miniter and Miss Beebe are expert in the curious folklore of that archaick region. I am at this very moment introducing one, as subsidiary colour, into a weird novelette I am writing. [This would become the famous “The Dunwich Horror”, set just east of Wilbraham and heavily inspired by the district.] I visited all the churchyards and burying places, and inspected the pleasing village of Wilbraham proper, where still flourishes the old academy founded in 1825.” — H.P. Lovecraft, “Observations on Several Parts of America”, in Lovecraft’s Collected Essays, Volume 4: Travel.