What Rhode Island city was H. P. Lovecraft born in?

What Rhode Island city was H. P. Lovecraft born in? He was born in Providence, Rhode Island.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in his family home in Providence. He spent much of his life in the city and returned there in 1926 after several years in New York City, making Providence central to both his biography and his literary identity.

Lovecraft’s Providence years helped shape his fascination with old houses, colonial history, cemeteries, and New England landscapes. Those settings recur throughout his stories, although his fictional towns are often transformed into invented places such as Arkham, Dunwich, and Innsmouth.

The main confusion is between Providence and nearby New England cities associated with Lovecraft’s life or work. Boston was a frequent destination, Hartford was connected with other literary figures, and Newport is another Rhode Island city—but none was his birthplace.