Robb House - Gainesville, FL
N 29° 39.002 W 082° 19.645
17R E 371520 N 3280743
The historic Robb House, now the Alachua County Medical Society, in Gainesville, Florida, USA, was built around 1878 and relocated to its present location in 1981.
Waymark Code: WM39V5
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 03/02/2008
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History of the Robb House:
The following is a biography of Sarah Robb posted on the Great Floridians 2000 Program website
(visit link): "Sarah Robb was born in 1852 and was Alachua County’s first female physician. She received a nursing degree and, with encouragement from her husband, decided to pursue a medical degree. When medical schools in the United States would not accept her, Robb went to Germany and received a medical degree there. She moved to Gainesville in 1883 with her children to join her husband who was recuperating from tuberculosis. She was a "horse and buggy" doctor, traveling around Alachua County making house calls and delivering babies. She also set up a clinic with overnight beds in her office. With her husband and another physician she published a book of "common sense" medicine for public use. She died in 1937. Her Great Floridian plaque is located at the Alachua County Medical Society, 235 SW 2nd Avenue, Gainesville."
According to the Alachua County Medical Society
(visit link): "The ACMS is located in the historic Robb House at 235 S.W. 2nd Avenue in Gainesville, Florida. The building was the original home and office of Doctors Lucretia and Robert Robb, one of Florida's first husband and wife physician teams. The Robb House was restored by the Medical Society and its Auxiliary in 1982. The Robb House is also home to the Medical Museum which houses the original furniture and medical equipment and instruments used by the Robbs. Included in the collection are instruments, equipment and artifacts which have been donated to the museum by physicians and the community."