{"id":62273,"date":"2023-11-24T03:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T03:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=62273"},"modified":"2023-11-24T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:52:09","slug":"the-old-court-house-on-benefit-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/24\/the-old-court-house-on-benefit-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The old Court House on Benefit Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/benefit-st-court.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/benefit-st-court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/benefit-st-court.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/benefit-st-court-528x340.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/benefit-st-court-768x494.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen this card pop up on eBay before, which makes me think it might be scarce. The old Court House on Benefit Street, later a school.  Lovecraft knew it and (if I have the correct Court House) described it as &#8220;great&#8221; in bulk&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In colonial times College St. was known successively as Presbyterian Lane (from the meeting-house at Benefit St., where the great Court House now stands), Rosemary Lane, &#038; Hanover St.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But is it of more significance in his life and work? There&#8217;s a Court House in <em>Dexter Ward<\/em> (perhaps not this one?) in which records are searched for. I can find nothing more on it in the time available for a quick search, but others may know differently.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that this is not why Lovecraft knew the giant College Street courthouse as the <em>new<\/em> Court House&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The view from his windows] &#8220;In the southwest the lofty Georgian belfry of the new Court House loomed up darkly save for the lighted clock-face, the floodlights not having been turned on.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since this &#8220;new&#8221; description was of the 1928 structure&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the very fine neo-Georgian court house, built in 1928\u201333, at the corner of College and North Main Streets&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen this card pop up on eBay before, which makes me think it might be scarce. The old &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/11\/24\/the-old-court-house-on-benefit-street\/\">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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62273","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=62273"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62305,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62273\/revisions\/62305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}