The turreted 1886 Queen Anne at the east end of Officers' Row was built to house the region's top general — and one resident went on to lead the entire U.S. Army as World War Two began. Step inside on a free docent tour when the house is open, or admire it from the lawn anytime.
In front of you rises the Marshall House, the showpiece of Officers' Row. Built in eighteen eighty-six for the commander of the Department of the Columbia, it announced its rank in Queen Anne style — turret, wraparound porch. General John Gibbon lived here first. But the resident this house remembers best arrived in nineteen thirty-six: George C. Marshall, a new brigadier general commanding the Fifth Brigade and some thirty-five Civilian Conservation Corps camps, who called it the most attractive house he had seen in the Army. He left in nineteen thirty-eight; on September first, nineteen thirty-nine — the day Germany invaded Poland — he was sworn in as Army Chief of Staff. The house took his name in nineteen sixty-seven. Free docent tours run when it is open; the exterior is yours anytime. One morning, three Soviet fliers ate his family's breakfast here — Boone tells that one by the airfield.