Booth's visit to the Surratt Boarding House after the assassination

[Laurie Verge]

I agree with Bill. I think Chamlee has the more precise diagram. Also, I believe that I'm correct that Harold Wang did not make it to the third floor - remember how I said we always thought there was something illegal going on up there?

However, Olivia Jenkins, Mary's niece, was staying with them that Easter weekend. She and Anna and Honora were all roughly the same young age. I wonder if she displaced Honora when she came to town and Honora had to sleep with Mrs. Surratt?

Just a side note: The H Street house has had a variety of commercial uses over the years. The ghost stories in the decades after the assassination drove away many of the families who inhabited it. Sometime in the early-1900s, the Piccadilly Bottling Company was located there. Then, D.C.'s Chinatown was relocated sometime around 1930 (had been on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol - probably around First to Third Streets).

When I first remember seeing #604, it was Suey Sang Lung's Chinese Grocery (this was in the late 60s). It then became Go-Lo's Chinese Restaurant. This would have been the time when Harold Wang got permission to go to the second floor. Go-Lo's then became Wok 'n Roll nearly ten years ago.

BTW: Mr. Wang was of Scandinavian descent - not Chinese. However, he made contact with Dr. Lee, who owned the building at that time, by phone and failed to mention that he was not Chinese.