Surratt Boarding House Floor Plan

Former boarding house where john wilkes booth met with co conspirators to plan the assassination of abraham lincoln.

Surratt boarding house floor plan.

After her husband died mary surratt rented out her tavern in surrattsville maryland and moved into her boarding house on h street. Mary elizabeth jenkins surratt 1820 or may 1823 july 7 1865 was an american boarding house owner in washington d c. Mary surratt was arrested two days after president lincoln s assassination at the boardinghouse. There john wilkes booth became friends with her son john.

It was operated as a boarding house by mary surratt from september 1864 to april 1865. Was the site of meetings of conspirators to kidnap and subsequently to assassinate u s. The mary elizabeth surratt boarding house is an 1843 vernacular greek revival dwelling that mary surratt operated as a boarding house from september 1864 through april 1865. Courtesy of wikipedia.

John surratt bought the modest house from an augustus a. Mary surratt boarding house matthew h ward. In 1865 who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate u s. Surratt boarding house in washington d c.

President abraham lincoln sentenced to death she was hanged and became the first woman executed by the us federal government she maintained her innocence until her death and the case against. The building has since been renumbered 604 h street nw and the first floor of the building is now a chinese restaurant called wok roll. During this period john wilkes booth visited the boarding house both socially and to meet with other members of the conspiracy while planning president abraham lincoln s assassination. During her trial residents of the boarding house testified that mary surratt regularly met with john.

1900 the house left wasn t much different from when mary surratt ran a boarding house at 604 h. Nw post civil war to world war ii. Interior second floor front room mary surratt boarding house 604 h street northwest washington district of columbia dc photos from survey habs dc 787. She became connected to the lincoln assassination because she rented rooms to john wilkes booth and his conspirators prior to the attack on president lincoln.

Photo print drawing 5. Mary surratt even assisted in the plans by storing ammunition and supplies at her family s tavern in surrattsville md. He turned the house into a boarding house.