Surratt, Mary House
- Year
- 1843
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- federal washington
Built in 1843 by Jonathan T. Walker, the three-and-one-half-story house at 604 H Street NW became Mary Surratt's boarding house from 1864 to 1865, and the meeting place for conspirators who plotted to kidnap and later assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. John Surratt had bought the property in 1853; after his death, Mary moved in from her Maryland tavern, and in 1865 the military tribunal trying Lincoln's assassins examined its role in the plot.
the building
The rowhouse facade. The building is 23 feet wide and 36 feet deep on a 29-by-100-foot lot, standing directly on the sidewalk on H Street's south side; the first floor was converted to commercial space in a 1925 alteration.
the style
The house has been described as Early Republic or Federal in style, or alternatively as "vernacular Greek Revival," typical of Washington rowhouse construction in the 1840s.
More on Federalsignificance
Listed as a DC Historic Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places and the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites for its role as the site where the Lincoln assassination conspiracy was planned.
nearby
- Bulletin Building
- Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
- Moran Building
- Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard
- Patent Office (National Portrait Gallery & National Museum of American Art)
- National Building Museum