Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine

This one-room doctor’s office was built by Samuel Thomas Stonestreet in 1852 for his son Edward Elisha Stonestreet of Rockville, who had just graduated from the University of Maryland’s medical school. Dr. Stonestreet was a practicing country doctor in the Rockville area until his death in 1903. During the fifty-one years of his practice, medical knowledge and technology underwent many radical changes. The Stonestreet Museum contains a small office vignette, and exhibits that highlight our extensive 19th and early 20th century medical collections including books, instruments and tools, pharmaceutical items, and more.

The office was originally situated in the front yard of the Stonestreet family home on East Montgomery Avenue at Monroe St. Some years after the doctor’s death the office was moved to the Rockville fairgrounds (now the site of Richard Montgomery High School), and it was thus spared demolition during the city’s urban renewal project in the mid 20th century. In 1972, Dr. Stonestreet’s office was donated to the Montgomery County Historical Society and moved to the grounds of the Beall-Dawson House.

The Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine is open by appointment!  If you’d like to meet Dr. Stonestreet and visit the Stonestreet Museum of 19^th Century Medicine, you can schedule your appointment by contacting [email protected]. Please allow 48 hours for scheduling. We look forward to seeing you soon!