Wilmington - Latimer House

The Latimer House was built in 1852 by local merchant Zebulon Latimer. Today the house is home to the Lower Cape Fear Historical Society and functions as a house museum exemplary of upper-class life in Wilmington during the Victorian period.

Latimer House contains 14 rooms which display a variety of historical items including furniture, jewelry, ephemera, tableware, tools, and more.

The house, built in the popular Italianate style, was designed to be symmetrical, with a central hallway on each floor opening onto an identical layout on either side. On the first floor, the hallway divides the formal sitting and dining areas on the north side - used for entertaining and special occasions - from the less formal sitting rooms to the south.