Despite a rainy, dreary day, we were truly enlightened in the history of Norfolk and the Tidewater region. We truly enjoyed our guided tour and step back in time!

If you can fit this in during your Norfolk stay, please take a tour. If you're a fan of architecture, you can see the original brickwork of 1775 and subsequent brickwork of 1830 and etc clearly labeled. Fascinating to learn that the Myers family relocated to Norfolk because Virginia had already signed a religious-freedom law (before the Bill of Rights was signed!) and Moses Myers wanted his family to freely pursue their Jewish religion even though there was no synagogue yet. The museum does an excellent job of telling the life stories of every member of the family in print on the walls in every room, so you don't need to wait for a guided tour. On my short stay as a tourist in Norfolk, this is my fourth favorite activity (behind the Chrysler Museum of Art, the Heritage House Museum, and the Hunter House Museum).

I had three knowledgeable ladies Cindy Karen and Mary who all combined to give me a complete tour of the house and a feeling for the Jewish life in revolutionary times I was lucky to be there at closing time on a dreary rainy Sunday where I had these three knowledgeable women as My personal tour guides I am from Seattle and being of Jewish family was interested in the life of a Jew before the civil war Especially in the south. I wish I had more time here in Norfolk but I have to drive back to seattle Monday. I find that southern people are more friendly than we are in seattle and hope I didn’t ask too many minutiae questions! Ladies it was a pleasure The only comment that I would add would be to put more light in the rooms so that you could see some of the detail better but then again I got a Picky!

If you'd like to learn about a once prominent family in Norfolk - pay this place a visit. I've got a personal tour when I visited the place. Also, it was interesting to learn about one of the very first Jewish Norfolk residents.

I couldn't understand why such a central attraction had such limited visiting days -Saturday and Sunday noon to 5. Admission is free when the house is open. The garden gate is open at all times for visitors to view the courtyard garden. It was nothing special with trees surrounding the backyard, a paved mossy patio, a water well, a bench, and ground covering. The sign outside the garden gate of this stylish 2 story red brick Federal style house provided a picture and brief biography of Mr Myers and his wife. These brief facts hardly do justice to the importance of this man and his family in developing Norfolk. Moses was a wealthy shipping merchant who went on to distinguish himself in local public affairs and in diplomatic missions abroad. This house, built in 1792, was one of the first to be built after the town's destruction in the revolutionary war and stayed in the Myers family for 5 generations - up to 1931. This house is basically a photostop of its exterior which is in good repair for its age. The red bricked square In front of the house has a circle of grey bricks with an image of an early Norfolk townplan engraved on it.The shopping mall, MacArthur Center is just steps away and provides AC relief on a hot day.