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Tudor Hall main house photograph, 2025

Jamescanningauthor · late May 2025

A recent photograph of the main building of Tudor Hall, the Booth family home at Bel Air, Maryland, on a large lawn under an overcast sky.

Shows the main building of the Booth family home at Bel Air, where the figure's family lived.

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A two-story white wooden farmhouse with a green metal roof, a central front gable with decorative trim, and a porch across the front, set on a large lawn with tall trees on the left and right under an overcast sky.
Jamescanningauthor, Main building of Tudor Hall, Bel Air, Maryland, late May 2025.

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What it is

This is a photograph of the main building of Tudor Hall in Bel Air, Maryland, taken in late May 2025 and credited to Jamescanningauthor. The image shows a two-story white wooden farmhouse with a green metal roof, a central front gable with decorative trim, and a porch across the front. Large trees stand on the lawn under an overcast sky.

Why it matters

Tudor Hall was the Booth family home, so the building is connected to John Wilkes Booth's background. This photograph shows the house as it appears today. It cannot show the house as it looked in the 1800s, so students should treat it as evidence of the present-day site rather than of the family's time.

Look closer

  • What features of the house, such as the porch and roof, would you look for to compare it with older pictures?
  • What does the empty lawn suggest, and what might a photograph like this leave out about the people who lived there?

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