Brooksville has more than one historic landmark — it has a four-story Victorian house with 14 rooms and seven gables, painted in colors that catch you from Main Street. The May-Stringer House dates to the Queen Anne era, and walking through its front door feels less like entering a museum and more like stepping behind the scenes of one.
The house is run by the Hernando Historical Museum Association, which has been preserving county history since 1976. Inside, exhibit rooms are set up as period dioramas: a Victorian dining room, Victorian bedrooms, a military display room, and recreations of a turn-of-the-century doctor’s office and communications space. The collection runs to more than 10,000 artifacts total.
The Association doesn’t stop at the May-Stringer House — it also runs the 1885 Train Depot museum, with a freight room of railroad artifacts and two HO-scale model-train layouts, and the Countryman Family One Room Schoolhouse, a recreation of Hernando County’s first schoolhouse, built in 1852 by Frederick Lykes. Kids can try carrying water jugs from an outdoor well and sit through a quick interactive lesson in the three R’s, the way a pioneer classroom actually ran it.
Three sites, one association, all within a short walk of each other in downtown Brooksville.
Good to know: All three sites are operated by the Hernando Historical Museum Association in Brooksville, FL.
1 thought on “The May-Stringer House Packs Three Museums Into One Brooksville Block”