Hunter House Victorian 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.

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Coordinates: 36°51′08″N 76°17′33″W / 36.85229°N 76.29261°W / 36.85229; -76.29261


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