Booth's Boston Haunts

[mgambuzza]

I live near Boston so I consider my home away from home to be the Parker House Hotel where JWB stayed about a week before the assassination. Sometimes when I meet my friends for a drink at the bar in the back of the hotel, I think that this was the exact location where booth had breakfast in the former dining room overlooking Chapman place. Chapman Place is an old alley and I read that JWB dined in the dining room and the sun was shining in from Chapman Place.

So if you're ever in Boston, stop by the Parker house on School and Chapman Place. It's a great old hotel.

Also, on Tremont street is now the Tremont temple where booth performed and across the street is the site of the Tremont House hotel (no longer there) where he also stayed. Apparently, there was a sooting gallery on Tremont Street near the hotel where Booth practiced before the assassination but I don't know the exact location. I think it was in the basement of some building.

Across the river in Cambridge, many of the Booth's are buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery.

Mike