Booth's Boston Haunts

[Jim Garrett]

(02-14-2013 06:07 PM)Art Loux Wrote:  

(02-14-2013 11:50 AM)mgambuzza Wrote:  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.

Mike

Do either of those buildings date to 1865? The Parker House looks like it may, but looks to be re-modeled. The other building, maybe 1880's?

Mike,
Booth honed his shooting skills at Floyd & Edward Pistol Gallery, 2 Chapman Place. He attracted a crowd by shooting over his shoulder and through his legs. Attached is a letter summarizing Booth sites in Boston. Also a picture of the land JWB owned on Commonwealth Ave and the Parker House.

Art