Lovecraft’s Providence, on Google Street View (give it a moment to load the map, then it will switch through to Street View)…<\/p>\n
Site of 454 Angell Street<\/a>. Family home to 1904. House torn down in 1961.<\/p>\n 598 Angell Street<\/a>. Home from 1904 to 1924.<\/p>\n 10 Barnes Street<\/a>. Home from 1926 to May 1933.<\/p>\n Site of 66 College Street<\/a>. Home to 1937. House moved in 1959 to 65 Prospect Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n Swan Point Cemetery<\/a>. Entrance, site of Lovecraft’s gravestone.<\/p>\n Providence Public Library (hideously ugly modern entrance<\/a>, and the grand old entrance<\/a> which is no longer in use).<\/p>\n Prospect Terrace<\/a>. A favorite haunt in young childhood and occasionally in adulthood.<\/p>\n Blackstone Park \/ the Seekonk River at York Pond<\/a>. A favorite middle-childhood haunt, and as an adult the site of outdoors summer letter-writing…<\/p>\n \u201cAt the present moment I am seated on a wooded bluff above the shining river which my earliest gaze knew & loved—which my infant imagination peopled with fauns & satyrs & dryads—. Whenever possible, I take my writing out in the open in a black leatherette case—.\u201d — H.P. Lovecraft letter, 8th July 1929.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Ladd Observatory<\/a>. Site of boyhood astronomy.<\/p>\n Thomas Street<\/a>. The \u201cFleur-de-Lys\u201d building and the Providence Art Club.<\/p>\n