Hunter House

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Timed ticket required. Purchase in advance. Guide-led tours at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm & 4:30 pm. Hunter House is a National Historic Landmark and one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture from 18th-century Newport. The north half was built between 1748 and 1754 by Jonathon Nichols Jr., a merchant and colonial deputy. After his death in 1756, Col. Joseph Wanton Jr. bought the house and enlarged it. Wanton, a loyalist, fled during the Revolution. His house became the headquarters of Admiral de Ternay, commander of the French fleet, in 1780. The house later was acquired by William Hunter, a U.S. Senator and President Jackson's charge d'affaires to Brazil. After the mid-1860s, it had various owners until 1945, when a group of citizens, concerned that the fine interiors might be removed, purchased Hunter House and formed The Preservation Society of Newport County. Today, the house exhibits examples of the finest arts and crafts of 18th-century Newport.Timed ticket required. Purchase in advance. Guide-led tours at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, 3:30 pm & 4:30 pm. Hunter House is a National Historic Landmark and one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture from 18th-century Newport. The north half was built between 1748 and 1754 by Jonathon Nichols Jr., a merchant and colonial deputy. After his death in 1756, Col. Joseph Wanton Jr. bought the house and enlarged it. Wanton, a loyalist, fled during the Revolution. His house became the headquarters of Admiral de Ternay, commander of the French fleet, in 1780. The house later was acquired by William Hunter, a U.S. Senator and President Jackson's charge d'affaires to Brazil. After the mid-1860s, it had various owners until 1945, when a group of citizens, concerned that the fine interiors might be removed, purchased Hunter House and formed The Preservation Society of Newport County. Today, the house exhibits examples of the finest arts and crafts of 18th-century Newport.