Hunter House Victorian Museum (Colonial-Era Site)

The Hunter House Museum building dates from 1894, but it occupies a lot in the Freemason Street neighborhood that was part of colonial Norfolk's most prosperous residential district — the area inhabited by the merchant elite who were predominantly loyalist during the Revolution. The Freemason district's history as Norfolk's wealthiest neighborhood before and after the burning of 1776 illuminates the social geography of the Revolutionary town: who lived where, who fled with Dunmore, and who stayed to rebuild. The museum's Victorian furnishings document the long arc of Norfolk's recovery.