{"id":35671,"date":"2020-03-01T05:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35671"},"modified":"2020-03-01T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T02:20:08","slug":"the-carrington-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/the-carrington-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Carrington House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some pictures of the Carrington House in Providence, which Lovecraft visited in 1936.<\/p>\n<p>The frontage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carr.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35672\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what appears to have been effectively the back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-williams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-williams.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"804\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36779\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-of-design-carrington-house-hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-of-design-carrington-house-hall.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"804\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36784\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carringtonhouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carringtonhouse.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"692\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the early life of the city the gardens were regarded as among the finest made in Providence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rhode-island-school-design-carrington-east-lawn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/rhode-island-school-design-carrington-east-lawn.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"804\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t get more than a snippet but he mentions the house, and visiting it, to Derleth in both volumes of the Lovecraft-Derleth letters&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; thrown open as public museums &#8230; The Carrington house (built 1809[-11]) is less classical in its symmetry, but is remarkably homelike. With its stables, courtyard, coach-houses, &amp; 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 &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A repository record of a late letter from Lovecraft to Elizabeth Toldridge, reveals that in 1936 he&#8230; &#8220;Gives his impressions of the Brown and Carrington mansions which have opened as public museums&#8221;.  The House opened as a public museum in 1936.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carr-library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carr-library.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/school-design-carrington-parlor-1930s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/school-design-carrington-parlor-1930s.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35692\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-drawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-drawing.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36780\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-bedroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-bedroom.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"802\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36783\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-chinese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-design-carrington-house-chinese.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"799\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36781\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carringtonhouseupper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/carringtonhouseupper.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40244\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Office&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-of-design-carrington-house-office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-of-design-carrington-house-office.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"326\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36785\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-of-design-carrington-house-chair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence-rhode-island-school-of-design-carrington-house-chair.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36782\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the walls he would have peered into some faded mythic scenes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/caly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/caly.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"121\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35680\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This modern use of the same wallpaper shows the scenes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/calypso.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/calypso.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"178\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The back gate on the street, circa the 1940s, where Lovecraft may have emerged after his tour&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/backgate-carrington-ri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/backgate-carrington-ri.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"825\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some pictures of the Carrington House in Providence, which Lovecraft visited in 1936. The frontage&#8230; And what appears to have &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/03\/01\/the-carrington-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}