President's House, Naval War College

President's House, Naval War College (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. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The house was built in 1896 at the cost of $16,226. It was listed on the National Historic Register in 1989 as building #89001219.

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 in June 1903 was Rear Admiral French Ensor Chadwick.

Every 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.

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 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