Hope Street English and Classical High School […] was a good mile from Lovecraft’s 598 Angell Street home, but there was no closer public high school to which he could have gone. [His route to school was long and] perhaps skirting the large property housing the Dexter Asylum (a home for the indigent), which obtruded along his path. […] The trip was not insignificant, as is perhaps reflected in the fair number of times during his first term of 1904–05 that Lovecraft reported late [attendance, in the school records]” — S.T. Joshi, I Am Providence.

Also known as the Dexter Hospital.