U.S. Naval Air Station, Senior Officers' Quarters Q-2, Q-2 North Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

Significance: Constructed in 1875, Quarters 2 played an important mission-support role as senior officer housing at both the Pensacola Navy Yard and at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola. Located on North Avenue, Quarters 2 functioned almost continuously as senior officer housing from 1875 until September 2004. Quarters 2 is located in the southeastern section of NAS Pensacola, within the boundaries of the Pensacola Naval Air Station Historic District, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The National Park Service designated this district as a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1976. The two-story, irregular plan, masonry and wood-frame building features a hipped roof and prominent covered porches wrapping around three sides of the building. The building displays slight Italianate influences in its architectural ornamentation. The interior retains distinctive decorative millwork dating to the building's nineteenth-century renovation.
Quarters 2 incorporates an earlier ca. 1850s masonry structure as part of its first floor. A particular architect or designer and contractor cannot be identified for the quarters. In appearance, Quarters 2, with its wide wraparound porches, resembled the original structure included the addition of a masonry second story in 1875 when Quarters 2 assumed its current appearance, with wood-framed covered porches added at the same time. A ca. 1875 two-story woodframe addition to the north end of Quarters 2 as well as a ca. 1942 one-story expansion allowed for additional living space for occupants and the modernization of the quarters over time.
As one of the eight remaining officers' quarters along North venue that date to the Pensacola Navy Yard period, Quarters 2 provides a symbolic and tangible link to the Navy's nineteenth-century military presence in the Pensacola Bay area. Quarters 2 provided housing for senior officers assigned to the navy yard and to the air station almost continuously since 1875. Despite the additions and other exterior changes, the building remains recognizable to its original 1875 appearance. Quarters 2 remains a good example of military residential architecture from the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Survey number: HABS FL-515
Building/structure dates: 1875 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000595