The Eisenhower House, is an historic, late nineteenth-century home,originally serving as the residence, for the Commandant of Fort Adams. Newport architects, George C. Mason and Son, designed the house in 1873.
General Henry Jackson Hunt was the first in a long line of officers to live there.
The most famous military persona to reside there, was President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The house being so named.
President Eisenhower vacationed here during the late summer of 1958 and 1960.
At first, the president was quartered at the Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island.
Golf was Ike’s passion however, and given Eisenhower House’s location near the Newport Country Club golf course, this became the president’s Summer White House.
The United States Navy transferred Fort Adams and Eisenhower House to the State of Rhode Island in 1964 for use as a state park.
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