Locations from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
(written in 1927)
140 Prospect Street
This is a really beautiful old building, and it's notable in HPL terms for two major reasons. Firstly, it is the Halsey Mansion, and one assumes that HPL borrowed the name for Dean Halsey from Herbert West - Reanimator. Secondly, he used it as the setting for Charles Dexter Ward's home.
"And at last the little white overtaken farmhouse on the right, on the left the classic Adam porch and stately facade of the great brick house where he was born. It was twilight, and Charles Dexter Ward had come home." from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
10 Barnes Street
We almost missed this building, if you can believe it. Again, it has two major significanes. Firstly, it was used as the residence of Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (indeed, he address a letter from this address in the story.) Secondly, it was the home address of HPL himself from 1926 to 1933.
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