Special Feature

   Incorporated into the architecture of the museum are a number of items of local historical interest.  The focal point in the building is the stained glass skylight, which came from the Victorian home originally built in the 1880s by the late U.S. Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey and remodeled by a subsequent owner, Mr. William H. Dougherty. In the early 1920s Mr. and Mrs. Dougherty donated their home to the City of Gainesville as a memorial to their son, Newsome.  With wings added, the building served as the  Dougherty Memorial High School until 1958.