Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine

Office hours with Dr. Stonestreet are back! Hear all about 19th century medical inventions and get a hands-on look at medical instruments of the past, all told from the perspective of the country doctor. 

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 Stonestreet@MontgomeryHistory.org.

You can also view our virtual tour!

About Dr. Stonestreet and his Office

Dr. Stonestreet and his family

The Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine, in its current home on the Beall-Dawson grounds.

 This one-room doctor’s office was built in 1850 for Dr. Edward Elisha Stonestreet of Rockville, who had just graduated from the University of Maryland medical school; he served as one of the town’s doctors until his death in 1903. During the fifty-one years of Dr. Stonestreet’s practice, medical knowledge and technology underwent many radical changes. The Stonestreet Museum contains a small office vignette, and changing exhibits that highlight our extensive 19th and early 20th century medical collections including books, instruments and tools, pharmaceutical items, and more.

The doctor’s office, in its original location on the edge of the Stonestreet property, c. 1890.

The office was originally situated in the front yard of the Stonestreet home on East Montgomery Avenue. 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.

Clarence Hickey, as Dr. Stonestreet, demonstrates Civil War-era medical techniques.

Clarence Hickey, who portrays Dr. Stonestreet for the public at the museum and at other venues around the region, closely watched the “Mercy Street” PBS series and has written an episode-by-episode account with his observations about the historical accuracy of the show’s depiction of Civil War-era medical care.