Hunter House Victorian Museum

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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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