Surratt Boarding House Floor Plan

Mary elizabeth jenkins surratt 1820 or may 1823 july 7 1865 was an american boarding house owner in washington d c.

Surratt boarding house floor plan.

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. Former boarding house where john wilkes booth met with co conspirators to plan the assassination of abraham lincoln. After the death of her husband in 1862 mary surratt had to manage his estate and his unpaid debts and angry creditors. 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.

Surratt boarding house in washington d c. Nw post civil war to world war ii. 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.

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. 1900 the house left wasn t much different from when mary surratt ran a boarding house at 604 h. During her trial residents of the boarding house testified that mary surratt regularly met with john. It was operated as a boarding house by mary surratt from september 1864 to april 1865.

Courtesy of wikipedia. There john wilkes booth became friends with her son john. Photo print drawing 5. Mary surratt was arrested two days after president lincoln s assassination at the boardinghouse.

Gibson on december 6 1853. John surratt bought the modest house from an augustus a. Southern sympathizer mary surratt ran a boarding house that served as a safe house and base of operations for conspirators in lincoln s assassination. Was the site of meetings of conspirators to kidnap and subsequently to assassinate u s.

Mary surratt boarding house matthew h ward. 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. In 1865 who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate u s.