caddy1071 wrote:Mindless-Focus wrote:Question for anyone going. I'm staying at the Biltmore Providence hotel. Are there usually walking tours to HPL's grave and other areas? Are there any good seafood restaurants nearby? Would love to take the wife to a lobster dinner. This will also be her birthday weekend and she has zero interest in Lovecraft or anything. Also, this will be our first con. I think I'm about to be overloaded.
Heya MF! Yeah, I'm going to be digging in myself - mebbe we can create a thread for cool places to go and see in Providence. I'll share what I find.
Gotta run - I'll share what I find when I can.
Thanks!
Cory
Man, thought I got this in a few days ago - either I was half asleep, didn't post, or both. :p Here's the links I got for Providence - Just a crawl through the Providence historical society pages, Trip Advisor and Atlas Obscura. If it might help, I wanted to be sure and share.
Note, these have some notes from the friends I have along for the trip... (Newport references for proposed Newport Mansion trip.)
Providence Info:
http://sos.ri.gov/publicinfo/tours/
http://www.goprovidence.com/listings/in ... 1660&hit=1 The Stephen Hopkins House
http://www.nps.gov/rowi/index.htm Roger Williams National Memorial
http://www.goprovidence.com/listings/in ... 1660&hit=1 Governor Henry Lippett House Museum
http://www.goprovidence.com/listings/in ... 1660&hit=1 John Brown House Museum
http://www.preservation.ri.gov/about/ol ... _house.php Old State House
http://www.providenceathenaeum.org/index.html Providence Athenaeum
http://www.ppsri.org/ Providence Preservation Society
http://www.rihs.org/ Rhode Island Historical Society (Hazel will love this logo!
)
http://risdmuseum.org/ Rhoade Island School of Design Museum
Atlas Obscura Entries for Providence:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hp-lovecrafts-grave
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hp-lovecraft-house (House where HPL lived in his decline
)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/john-hay-library-0 (Will be displaying original H.P. Lovecraft works)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stephen-harris-house (Basis for HPL's "The Shunned House")
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/roger-williams-root (very strange - founder of Providence)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/fleur-de-lys-studio (eccentric art studio - tours?)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gun-totem (pillar of cemented guns from their collection efforts)
Places on the way to Newport:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/musee-patamecanique (Crazy little museum of roving nature
)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/little-neck-cemetery (A Mayflower passenger and the first English mayor of New York are buried here)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/irish-lot (gravestones with unexplained holes in them)
In Newport:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/carey-mansion (External filming site for "Dark Shadows" (Collinswood) in the 60's)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/belcourt-castle (Another mansion)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bells (Probably not a place to "go" - have to be an urban adventurer
- but interesting story none the less.... Egyptian loot!
)
Surrounding areas of Providence:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-mercy-brown (grave of a vampire)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lizz ... and-museum (crazed killer Lizzie Borden Museum - probably not a great choice
)
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dighton-rock (AWESOME ancient cravings of unknown origin that make crazies go wild.
Pretty far out, but might be worth a trip.)
