Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2090
The Booth Cutler house was located at about 384-386 Washington Street on the north side of Mother’s Rest. It was occupied for a short time in the 1860s by Edwin T. Booth, the famous actor, son of Junius Brutus Booth and brother of John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth visited there The house was a Dorchester landmark for nearly a century and was later tenanted by Rev. Elijah Cutler. In 1916 it was torn down, and in 1928 the Greenwood Church Community House was built at that location.
Source:
Berry, Lawrence F. Greenwood Memorial Church … Dorchester: The Author, 1936.
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