Hunter_House_Victorian_Museum

Hunter House Victorian Museum

Hunter House Victorian Museum

Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, United States

For other places with the same name, see Hunter House Museum.

The Hunter House Victorian Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, United States is a house museum.[1]

The house was built in 1894 for the merchant and banker James Wilson Hunter, together with his wife Lizzie Ayer Barnes Hunter and their three children.[2] It was designed and built by the Boston architect W.P. Wentworth in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.[3]

The museum opened in 1988.[2] It includes Victorian furnishings and decorative arts belonging to Hunter's family.

References

  1. [1]
    Hunter House Victorian Museum, Wikimapia.
  2. [2]
    History, Hunter House Victorian Museum, USA.
  3. [3]
    Hunter House Victorian Museum Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Yahoo Travel.

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