This Neo-Classical manse, locally known as the Admiral’s House, stands at the former Navy Base in North Charleston. It was built in 1905 for the Commandant of the Charleston Navy Yard. Officially called Quarters A, the house boasts features that are indicative of its residents’ high rank. The area designated as the Officers’ Quartets District was previously part of Chicora Park, a public park designed in 18996 by landscape architects John and Frederick Olmsted, sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., designer New York’s Central Park. The Admiral’s House sits on a spacious lot on a hill, as do the homes of other high-ranking officers, looking over the quarters of lower-ranking officers which were built on smaller tracts below. A flagpole erected at Quarters A in 1943 distinguished the home as the Commandant’s, as did an anchor from World War I that marked the driveway. The flagpole remains in the front yard today, but the anchor has been removed.

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