St. Catharine (Waldorf, Maryland)

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St. Catharine
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Location3725 Dr. Samuel Mudd Road, Waldorf, Maryland
Coordinates 38°36′34″N76°49′36″W / 38.60944°N 76.82667°W / 38.60944; -76.82667 Coordinates: 38°36′34″N76°49′36″W / 38.60944°N 76.82667°W / 38.60944; -76.82667
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1865 (1865)
NRHP reference No. 74000950 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 1, 1974
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St. Catharine, also known as Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House, is a historic house near Waldorf, Maryland. It is a two-part frame farmhouse with a two-story, three-bay side-passage main house with a smaller two-story, two-bay wing. It features a one-story hip-roofed porch across the facade added in 1928. It was at this house where Samuel A. Mudd treated the injured John Wilkes Booth, who was fleeing justice a day after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, following the defeat of the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

"St. Catharine" has been in the Mudd family since the 1690s. In 1974, St. Catharine was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Currently, it is operated as a historic house museum. [3]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Mrs. Frances Moure and Mrs. Ray C. Arehart (September 1973). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Catharine" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. "Homepage". The Dr. Mudd House Museum. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

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