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.
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 -
