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Earlier
this year the Society received a gift of an 1890's era doll house
that had its roots here in Suffolk. The house was built for Bess
Holland (later Creekmore), who lived at 216 Bank Street, just up
the street from the Phillips-Dawson House. In the early 1960's the
house was donated to Richmond's Valentine Museum, who donated it
back to Suffolk Nansemond Historical Society nearly half a century
later.
Bess's father
was Col. E. E. Holland who eventually served as a congressman from
this district.
The doll
house contains more than one hundred pieces of furniture and decorative
items that are part of the collection.
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