One of the last to live in Lovecraft’s house at 66 College Street, before it was removed in 1959, was a Lovecraft fan writing his dissertation at Brown. William Deminoff (class of 1954) appears to have been an assistant professor at Brown in 1957 (Ken Faig Jr. found a tenancy record for that year, but not that Deminoff was a Lovecraftian) and had gone on to be active in early Lovecraft fandom. The cutting below is from March 1965. This raises the possibility that Deminoff made photographs of the house in situ in its garden court, that may still exist? The name “Deminoff” is not found in Joshi’s comprehensive bibliography, which suggests that his final dissertation was not on Lovecraft.
William Deminoff
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hasmith8 said:
There is an obituary for William Deminoff in Find-a-Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129262286/william-deminoff
It does not, however, mention his connection with Lovecraft. — Horace Smith