Parker House Hotel
Two brothers in one city that week. One had voted for Lincoln. The other, one man said, was practicing with a pistol.
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How the story begins
Eight days before he shot Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth had breakfast at this hotel. The morning after the shooting, a letter went out from this hotel to his brother. The breakfast comes from a bellboy, Barney Brogan, who told the Boston Globe about it sixty years later. He placed the actor in the ladies' cafe of the old hotel, at the corner of School Street and Chapman Place, on the sixth of April, 1865, with two other men and the sun on his black hair.
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Visiting
Omni Parker House, 60 School Street. A working hotel. The story's corner can be seen from the School Street sidewalk at any hour.
Photos
Sources
- Susan Wilson, Boston, the Booth Brothers, and the Parker House, Boston Hospitality Review, Boston University (2015)
- Boston Globe, How Boston embraced John Wilkes Booth's brothers (2015)
- Lincoln Conspirators, Booth at the Parker House (2025)
- Wikipedia, Omni Parker House (rebuilding, citing Boston Globe 1927)
- Lincoln Conspirators, A Brother's Sorrow (2013), printing Jarrett's and Edwin Booth's letters
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