President's House (Naval War College)

The President's House (also known as Quarters AA) is the home of the President of the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The house is a wooden, three-story building in Colonial Revival style located on a hill on Coaster's Harbor Island, overlooking Coaster's Harbor, Dewey Field, and Narragansett Bay.

The house was built in 1896 by local Newport, Rhode Island, architect and builder Creighton Withers at the cost of $16,226. Built originally as "Quarters B" for the commandant of the Naval Training Station, Newport, the first president of the Naval War College to occupy it was Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick, in June 1903.

Every Naval War College president except for Charles Stillman Sperry (1903–1906) and William Ledyard Rodgers (1911–1913) has lived in the house since that time. Among the most famous residents of the house have been Admirals William Sims, Raymond A. Spruance, Stansfield Turner, and James Stockdale.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

List of occupants

 * Rear Adm. French Ensor Chadwick       	June 1903           -          	Nov 16, 1903
 * Rear Adm. John Porter Merrell            May 24, 1906        -           Oct 06, 1909
 * Rear Adm. Raymond Perry Rodgers       	Oct 6, 1909         -           Nov 20, 1911
 * Rear Adm. Austin Melvin Knight           Dec 15, 1913        -           Feb 16, 1917
 * Captain  William S. Sims          	Feb 16, 1917        -           Apr 28, 1917

From April 28, 1917 to April 11, 1919, the academic activities of the Naval War College were discontinued due to United States participation in World War I. During this period, the reserve force of the Second Naval District used the college buildings and a series of three acting presidents maintained the administrative side of the college.


 * Rear Adm. William S. Sims             Apr 11, 1919            -      Oct 14, 1922
 * Rear Adm. Clarence Stewart Williams        Nov 3, 1922         -          Sept 5, 1925
 * Rear Adm. William Veazie Pratt             Sept 5, 1925       -           Sept 17, 1927
 * Rear Adm. Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle    Sept 19. 1927      -           May 30, 1930
 * Rear Adm. Harris Laning                    June 16, 1930      -           May 13, 1933
 * Rear Adm. Luke McNamee                     Jun 3, 1933        -     	May 29, 1934
 * Rear Adm. Edward Clifford Kalbfus          June 18, 1934      -    	Dec 15, 1936
 * Rear Adm. Charles Philip Snyder            Jan 2, 1937      -        	May 27, 1939
 * Rear Adm. Edward Clifford Kalbfus          June 30, 1939      -   	June 16, 1942
 * Admiral  Edward Clifford Kalbfus (Ret.)    June 16, 1942	     -	        November 2, 1942
 * Rear Adm. William Satterlee Pye            Nov 2, 1942        -   	July 1, 1944
 * Vice Adm. William Satterlee Pye (Ret.)     July 1, 1944       -    	Mar 1, 1946
 * Admiral  Raymond Ames Spruance          	  Mar 1, 1946        -   	July 1, 1948
 * Vice Adm. Donald Bradford Beary            Nov 1, 1948        -   	May 28, 1950
 * Vice Adm. Richard L. Conolly              Dec 1, 1950         - 	        Nov 2, 1953
 * Vice Adm. Lynde D. McCormick               May 3, 1954        -   	Aug 16, 1956
 * Rear Adm. Thomas H. Robbins, Jr.           Sept 5, 1956       -   	Aug 1, 1957
 * Vice Adm. Stuart H. Ingersoll              Aug 13, 1957       -    	June 30, 1960
 * Vice Adm. Bernard L. Austin                June 30, 1960      -    	July 31, 1964
 * Vice Adm. Charles L. Melson                July 31, 1964      -    	Jan 25, 1966
 * Vice Adm. John T. Hayward                  Feb 15, 1966       -     	Aug 30, 1968
 * Vice Adm. Richard G. Colbert               Aug 30, 1968       -    	Aug 17, 1971
 * Vice Adm. Benedict J. Semmes, Jr.          Aug 17, 1971       -    	Jun 30, 1972
 * Vice Adm. Stansfield Turner                June 30, 1972      -     	August 9, 1974
 * Vice Adm. Julien J. LeBourgeois            Aug 9, 1974        -   	April 1, 1977
 * Rear Adm. Huntington Hardesty              April 1, 1977      -     	Oct 13, 1977
 * Vice Adm. James B. Stockdale               Oct 13, 1977       -     	Aug 22, 1979
 * Rear Adm. Edward F. Welch, Jr.             Aug 22, 1979       -  	Aug 17, 1982
 * Rear Adm. James E. Service                 Oct 14, 1982       -    	Jul 12, 1985
 * Rear Adm. Ronald F. Marryott               August 8, 1985     -     	Aug 12, 1986
 * Rear Adm. John A. Baldwin                  Sept 2, 1986       -    	Aug 11, 1987
 * Rear Adm. Ronald J. Kurth                  August 11, 1987    -     	July 17, 1990
 * Rear Adm. Joseph C. Strasser               July 17, 1990      -    	June 29, 1995
 * Rear Adm. James R. Stark                   June 29, 1995      -   	July 24, 1998
 * Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski              July 24, 1998      -   	Aug 22, 2001
 * Rear Adm. Rodney P. Rempt                  Aug 22, 2001       -  	July 9, 2003
 * Rear Adm. Ronald A. Route                  July 9, 2003	     -	        August 12, 2004
 * Rear Adm. Jacob Shuford			 October 2004       -          Nov 6, 2008
 * Rear Adm. James P. Wisecup                 July 6, 2010       -           March 30, 2011
 * Rear Adm. John N. Christenson              March 30, 2011     -           July 14, 2013
 * Read Adm Walter E. Carter Jr.              July 15, 2013       -