Officers Row, Historic military residential district in Vancouver, United States.
Officers Row is a historic military residential district in Vancouver that stretches across the Fort Vancouver grounds. The district contains 21 wooden houses built in Victorian and Colonial Revival styles, each featuring large porches and decorative woodwork details.
The oldest building was constructed in 1846 during the early settlement era of the Pacific Northwest as officer housing for Vancouver Barracks. Additional houses were added over several decades as the fort expanded and the military community grew.
The houses are named for figures tied to the site: Grant House for Ulysses S. Grant, who was quartermaster at Vancouver Barracks, and Marshall House for General George C. Marshall, who lived there. The row was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and after being declared surplus in 1980 it was transferred to the city for one dollar.
Officers Row runs along the edge of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site in Vancouver, Washington, within walking distance of the fort's reconstructed stockade and the Pearson Air Museum. The 21 houses line a single street, so the row is seen on foot from the public sidewalk; the grounds around the houses are open, while the buildings themselves are tenanted and not open for tours.
Grant House, the oldest of the 21 houses, dates from 1846 and carries the name of Ulysses S. Grant, who was stationed at Vancouver Barracks as a young quartermaster before becoming the 18th U.S. President. The last house on the row went up in 1906, the same year the Firsts Monument nearby was erected.
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