Hunter House Victorian Museum

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

The Hunter House Victorian Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, USA 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. ↑ Hunter House Victorian Museum, Wikimapia.
  2. 1 2 History, Hunter House Victorian Museum, USA.
  3. ↑ Hunter House Victorian Museum, Yahoo Travel.

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