K_06a Federal Hill - St. John's Roman Catholic Church (1871) – 352 Atwells Avenue (at Sutton Street) - Looking South-East [See K_06b for Current State of Site]

The "Free-Will Baptist Church", home of the Starry Wisdom sect in H. P. Lovecraft's story, "The Haunter of the Dark." Demolished 04-February-1992.

H. P. Lovecraft's description in "The Haunter of the Dark" still says it the best, "Of all the distant objects on Federal Hill, a certain huge, dark church most fascinated Blake. It stood out with especial distinctness at certain hours of the day, and at sunset the great tower and tapering steeple loomed blackly against the flaming sky. It seemed to rest on especially high ground; for the grimy facade, and the obliquely seen north side with sloping roof and the tops of great pointed windows, rose boldly above the tangle of surrounding ridgepoles and chimney-pots. Peculiarly grim and austere, it appeared to be built of stone, stained and weathered with the smoke and storms of a century and more. The style, so far as the glass could show, was that earliest experimental form of Gothic revival which preceded the stately Upjohn period and held over some of the outlines and proportions of the Georgian age."

Does the light level in this picture seem darker than the other angles of the church? Although it was a sunny day (look at the other pictures before and after pictures K_05A, K_05B, and K_06), for some reason, my camera would not function properly when photographing the church from this angle. And even when I tried to correct shot K_05A in its digital format (see picture K_05B), it kept coming out dark. And that's what made me think of H. P. Lovecraft's description of Robert Blake's experience in "The Haunter of the Dark": "The afternoon sun came out from behind dispersing clouds, but seemed unable to light up the stained, sooty walls of the old temple that towered on its high plateau."

Interesting isn't it?

Photo taken by Will Hart on 20-August-1990.

This is the photo from this Flickr collection that S. T. Joshi used to help illustrate his two-volume bibliography of H. P. Lovecraft, entitled, "I Am Providence." See the details at cthulhuwho1.com/2010/10/15/s-t-joshis-lovecraft-biography...

See and hear more Lovecraftian Items at the sister sites to these Flickr collections at:
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Taken in: United States / Rhode Island / Providence / Federal Hill (show map)

Taken on: August 20, 1990

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