St. Catharine, also known as Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House, is a historic house near Waldorf, Maryland

Waldorf, Maryland

Waldorf, Maryland is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Charles County, Maryland, United States. It is south-southeast of Washington, D.C. The population of the census-designated area only was 67,752 at the 2010 census...

. It is a two part frame farmhouse with a two-story, three-bay side-passage main house with a a smaller two-story, two-bay wing. It features a one-story hip-roofed porch across the facade added in 1928. It was at this house where Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House treated the injured John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865. Booth was a member of the prominent 19th century Booth theatrical family from Maryland and, by the 1860s, was a well-known actor...

. "St. Catharine" has been in the Mudd family since the 1690s. It is operated as a historic house museum.

St. Catharine was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

in 1974.

External links

• museum website
• St. Catharine including photo from 1990, at Maryland Historical Trust