For this week’s ‘Picture Postals’, a few more images to accompany my earlier and more in-depth look at St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway and Vesey. This was the church where H.P. Lovecraft married Sonia H. Greene, 100 years ago this week on 3rd March 1924.

By Rachael Robinson Elmar.

Most pictures of the place were and still are made in verdant summer. But, as I’ve established with reference to the weather records, the leaves would have been off the trees for the Lovecraft marriage. At the most the newly married couple might have emerged to…

a few hints of the very earliest new leaves on the trees, a sparse first flush of new grass after winter, and perhaps a few early un-opened daffodils.

Inside these two pictures give the best overview I can find. In Lovecraft’s time it appears that a British and an American flag hung down like banners on either side. By the looks of it later these were removed and there was just an American flag, discreetly draped to one side. Today it appears all the flags are gone, and there are only festoons of greenery.

The walk to the altar…