Executive Offices of the Governor American Samoa Government

Duplex Officers Quarters (No. 20) around 1903. (Administration Building under construction next to it.) (Photograph courtesy of Ms. Karen Wheat)
Duplex Officers Quarters (No. 20) around 1900. (Photograph courtesy of the American Samoa Office of Archives and Records Management)			Duplex Officers Quarters (No. 20) as it looks today

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Duplex Officers Quarters

The construction date of this two story, frame, Duplex Officers' Quarters, (Navy Building No. 20) in unknown, but based on historic photographs it appears to have been built prior to the 1904 construction of the Naval Administration Building next to it. In his report for 1923, the commandant wrote this structure had been condemned and that new officers' quarters were needed. It is not known if the original structure was taken down nor if todays building was its replacement. It is a two story frame building facing the bay and the main road that runs through the station. The structure stands on concrete piers. Corrugated iron covers the roof. The two separate entrances on the front of the building remain but their doors have been modernized. Also the second floor, now boarded, windows appear to be modern. An early photograph of the building shows that it originally had verandas similar to the Naval Administration Building. No verandas exist today but corrugated iron overhangs protect portions ofthe ground floor windows and doors. An exterior staircase on the wast side leads to the second floor; it appears to have been a later addition. The approximate dimensions of the building are sixty feet square. In 1934 this duplex housed warrant officers and their families; in 1949 officers and their families lived here. Today the building is home to the Territory's District Court. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Tutuila Naval Station Historic District.