Kirkwood House was a 19th-century building in Washington, D.C., located at the northeast corner of the intersection of 12th Street NW and Pennsylvania Avenue. Opened in 1848, it was initially called F
1847 elevation view of Fuller's Hotel, the building that would later become Kirkwood House (Library of Congress)
"Irving Hotel (Late Fuller's) Washington City." Washington Union, November 26, 1848
Kirkwood House advertisement in 1858 edition of Boyd's directory of Washington, D.C.
"To-Morrow, by Latimer & Cleary: Trustee's Sale of the Entire Effects of the Kirkwood House" (Evening Star, February 4, 1874)
On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., one month into his second term and towards the conclusion of the American C
Kirkwood House (Washington, D.C.)
…known as the Kirkwood House in 1854. Kirkwood House was the site of the inauguration of Andrew Johnson as President of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The building was demolished in 1874. An inn stood at the site that became Kirkwood House as early as the 1820s. The building that became…
John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre
A Carte de visite of the actor John Wilkes Booth, c. 1865
The Surratt boarding house, where the conspirators planned
Ford's Theatre