[Hugh Genoways asked]:

>> What was the first historic house museum in the U. S.?  (Not the oldest
>> house that is now a museum, but the first to be operated as a museum)
>>
>> What is the longest operating historic house museum in the U. S. that
>> is still open?

Well, this doesn't exactly answer any of the questions posed, but APVA 
Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of 
Virginia Antiquities) is the oldest statewide preservation organization in 
the country and, I believe, the oldest multi-site historical organization in 
the country (founded 1889, early acquisitions include: Jamestown, 1893; the 
Powder Magazine in Williamsburg, 1890 (this and other early sites preserved 
in Williamsburg are now in the care of the Colonial Williamsburg 
Foundation); the Mary Washington House in Fredericksburg, 1890; the John 
Marshall House in Richmond, 1911; and others).


Catherine E. Dean
Curator of Collections
APVA--Preservation Virginia
204 West Franklin Street
Richmond, VA 23220-5012
804-648-1889
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