Some pictures of the Carrington House in Providence, which Lovecraft visited in 1936.
The frontage…
And what appears to have been effectively the back…
In the early life of the city the gardens were regarded as among the finest made in Providence…
I can’t get more than a snippet but he mentions the house, and visiting it, to Derleth in both volumes of the Lovecraft-Derleth letters…
… thrown open as public museums … The Carrington house (built 1809[-11]) is less classical in its symmetry, but is remarkably homelike. With its stables, courtyard, coach-houses, & extensive grounds, it forms one of the finest domestic units of the Early-Republic now on exhibition. The estate has been given to the R.I. School of Design …
A repository record of a late letter from Lovecraft to Elizabeth Toldridge, reveals that in 1936 he… “Gives his impressions of the Brown and Carrington mansions which have opened as public museums”. The House opened as a public museum in 1936.
The Office…
On the walls he would have peered into some faded mythic scenes…
This modern use of the same wallpaper shows the scenes…
The back gate on the street, circa the 1940s, where Lovecraft may have emerged after his tour…
