Ford restoration

[Jim Garrett]

Ford's is currently closed due to the situation in the Government.

Yes, it is - and we have had some unhappy out-of-towners at Surratt House this past ten days! I am a bit perturbed myself because we are taking a tour bus from Pennsylvania over the Booth escape route on Saturday, and it appears that Stop #1 at Ford's will have to be eliminated.

We will be able to get into the new Education Center because it is run by the Ford's Theatre Society, not the NPS. However, they will not open early for us as the rangers at Ford's are nice enough to do. That means we will be at least an hour behind schedule the entire day. When you are dealing with a twelve-hour tour, that hurts. But heck, it took Booth and Herold twelve days, so what are we complaining about!?

Laurie:

You may want to consider arriving at 8:30 to 8:45 and just do a quick tour of the alley. I have not seen any urban bald-tailed squirrels in many years back there. Also the Atlantic Building on F St dates to about the mid 1880s, but the prior Atlantic Building was the home of Harvey and Marr, undertakers. St. Patrick's, one block up from Ford's on 10th. The current building dates to the 1879s, but that is where Mary Surratt attended mass. On G St. the second floor window with diamond panes is the room where Father Jacob Walters died.