AT A GLANCE
Why go?
Tucked into a restored frame house on Gainesville's northwest side, the A. Quinn Jones Museum & Cultural Center honors one of Alachua County's most influential educators and, through him, the African-American community he helped shape. Housed in the former Jones family home at 1013 NW Seventh Avenue, the small museum pairs a permanent exhibit on "Prof" Jones with oral histories and rotating shows that give voice to the people and places of the historic Fifth Avenue/Pleasant Street neighborhood.↗↗
It is an intimate, story-driven stop rather than a sprawling attraction—ideal for travelers drawn to civil-rights history, Black educational legacy and local memory, and a meaningful complement to a day in downtown Gainesville.↗
A legacy in a restored home
The museum's namesake, A. Quinn Jones, was an educator whose career defined opportunity for generations of Black students in Florida. He became principal of Union Academy in 1921 and, in 1923, the founding principal of the segregated Lincoln High School. Affectionately known as "Prof" Jones, he insisted his graduates earn a full high-school diploma and built Lincoln into the second fully accredited African-American high school in the state.
