The Providence Architecture Here and There blog reports on the possibility of “New life for Industrial Trust building?”. This iconic central building having been vacant for a while now. Sadly it now looks set to become apartments, rather than the towering multi-floor H.P. Lovecraft & Mythos Madness Museum that the city should have enjoyed for the last thirty years.

The article includes much local insight into the political machinations (of the sort that always seem to have dogged Providence), but also a very nice tip-off on an old Providence Journal photo of the building under construction in 1927 as seen from the foot of College Street. This inset picture quickly led me to the full picture, another ‘foot of Lovecraft’s College Street’ picture I had never seen before. I’ve here colourised it…

Compare with the same scene some 20 years earlier, as seen in another newly-found picture.