St. Catharine (Waldorf, Maryland)
Historic house in Maryland, United States
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St. Catharine, also known as Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House, is a historic house near Waldorf, Maryland. It is a two-part frame farmhouse with a two-story, three-bay side-passage main house with 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 Samuel A. Mudd treated the injured John Wilkes Booth, who was fleeing justice a day after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, following the defeat of the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
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St. Catharine, October 2014 | |
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| Location | 3725 Dr. Samuel Mudd Road, Waldorf, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 38°36′34″N 76°49′36″W |
| Area | 10 acres (4.0 ha) |
| Built | 1865 |
| NRHP reference No. | 74000950[1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 1, 1974 |
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"St. Catharine" has been in the Mudd family since the 1690s. In 1974, St. Catharine was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[2] Currently, it is operated as a historic house museum.[3]
