This antebellum home is related in style to the early Louisiana plantation houses of the lower Mississippi Valley, with its main living quarters on the second floor to cope with the heat and dampness of the climate. It stands on land once owned by Robert Forbes, the first Gadsden County sheriff, whose house served as a county courthouse in the early 1820’s. Later in the nineteenth century, the property passed into the hands of Hector and William Bruce, grandnephews of Forbes. In 1956, Quincy Garden Club purchased it, and in 1972 Talquin Electric Cooperative, Inc. acquired it and undertook a complete restoration.