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 Dr.

Samuel A. Mudd Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth concerning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Mudd worked as a doctor and tobacco fa ...

treated the injured John Wilkes Booth, who was fleeing justice a day after

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President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, following the defeat of the

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in the American Civil War. "St. Catharine" has been in the Mudd family since the 1690s. In 1974, St. Catharine was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Currently, it is operated as a historic house museum.

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museum website
* including photo from 1990, at Maryland Historical Trust Houses in Charles County, Maryland Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Historic house museums in Maryland Houses completed in 1865 Museums in Charles County, Maryland Waldorf, Maryland National Register of Historic Places in Charles County, Maryland 1865 establishments in Maryland {{Maryland-museum-stub