Notice the President's House, home to nearly every president. This is the residence of the President of the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, a building constructed in 1732 that still serves its original purpose and ranks among the oldest buildings in Virginia. It has housed every college president since its construction except one: Robert Saunders Jr., the lone president who did not move in.
The house is let for free to the president and is William & Mary’s third-oldest building and the oldest official college presidential residence in the United States. You are on the College’s Ancient Campus, also known as the Historic Campus, where this eighteenth-century house forms part of a forecourt with the Wren Building. The President’s House sits northeast of the Wren Building and faces the Brafferton to the building’s south; together with those seventeenth-century structures it helps form the centerpiece of the Virginia Landmarks Register’s Williamsburg Historic District.
The three buildings occupy the wedge formed by the confluence of Richmond Road and Jamestown Road, the routes that originate at Richmond and Jamestown. Notice the Wren Building rising southwest and the Brafferton just to the south.