Mary E. Surratt Boarding House

The Mary E. Surratt Boarding House in Washington, D.C. was the site of meetings of conspirators to kidnap and subsequently to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

[2] The building, at 604 H Street NW, standing three-and-one-half stories tall, was constructed by Jonathan T. Walker in 1843.

For her role as a member of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy plot, she became the first woman to be executed by the United States federal government.

[5] The building, now in the center of the Chinatown of Washington D.C.,[6] was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 2009.

[7] In April, 2011 the house gained some attention with the release of a film about Mary Surratt, The Conspirator by director Robert Redford.

The building in 1890