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.