May-Stringer House

601 Museum Ct., Brooksville, FL, 34601

The May-Stringer House is a four-storey, seven-gable, fourteen-room Queen Anne Victorian painted lady in Brooksville's historic district, operated as a museum by the Hernando Historical Museum Association. The land was homesteaded in 1842 under the Armed Occupation Act; John L. May built the original four-room home in 1855, and Dr Sheldon Stringer's family owned and expanded the house from 1903 to 1961, running a medical practice from it. The Museum Association leased the property in 1980 and completed its purchase in 1985, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in March 1997. Today it holds more than 10,000 artifacts across docent-led tours, which begin on the hour Tuesday through Saturday, at 10 dollars for adults and 5 dollars for children 6 to 12. It is also widely described as one of Florida's most haunted houses, and runs individual ghost tours on Friday nights from 8 to 10 PM at 20 dollars a person, plus six-hour Saturday-night investigations for groups at 250 dollars.