Edwin Booth - Legacy

Legacy

• The Players' Club still exists in its original clubhouse at 16 Gramercy Park South in Manhattan. A statue of Booth as Hamlet, by Edmond T. Quinn, has been the centerpiece of the private Gramercy Park since 1916. It can be seen by the public through the south gate of the park.
• Booth left a few recordings of his voice preserved on wax cylinder. One of them can be heard on the Naxos Records set Great Historical Shakespeare Recordings and Other Miscellany. Booth's voice is barely audible with all the surface noise, but what can be deciphered reveals it to have been rich and deep.
• Memorials of Booth can still be found around Bel Air, Maryland. In front of the courthouse is a fountain dedicated to his memory. Inside the post office there is a portrait of him. Also, his family's home, Tudor Hall, still stands and was bought in 2006 by Harford County, Maryland, to become a museum.
• A chamber in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is called "Booth's Amphitheatre" - so called because Booth entertained visitors there.
• The Springer Opera House in Columbus, Georgia is said to be haunted by the ghost of Edwin Booth.
• Broadway's Booth Theatre was the first, and remains the oldest, Broadway theatre to be named in honor of an actor.
• Stephen Sondheim's musical Assassins mentions Edwin in "The Ballad of Booth" with the lyrics: "Your brother made you jealous, John/You couldn't fill his shoes."