Tingey House, Historic house in Washington Navy Yard, United States

Tingey House, or Quarters A, is a two-and-a-half-story Georgian residence at the Washington Navy Yard, designed by William Lovering and completed in 1804. Its white-sided facade has a side-gabled roof, two capped chimneys, a round-windowed dormer, dark-shuttered upper windows and a pedimented entry porch on slender white columns. A glazed enclosed porch extends on the left, and a porte-cochère stands on the south and east sides.

The house was built in 1804 under orders from Navy Secretary Robert Smith and later survived the fire during the War of 1812 when the Navy Yard came under attack. This survival makes it one of the oldest structures still standing at the complex.

The house is also called the Commandant's Quarters, recalling Thomas Tingey, who laid out the Navy Yard and served 28 years as its first commandant. A memorial plaque to him is fixed to the side of the building. Since 1977 it has been the Chief of Naval Operations' official residence, after One Observatory Circle passed to the Vice President.

The house sits near the Latrobe Gate and is easy to locate within the Navy Yard. Visitors should know this is an active military complex, so certain access rules and security guidelines apply.

A memorial plaque on the side of the house records that Thomas Tingey laid out the Navy Yard and served as its first commandant for twenty-eight years. In August 1960 Rear Admiral Thomas Robbins said his dog Lucky barked at an empty chair in the drawing room until he greeted the commodore aloud.