President's House, also referred to as Hatter Hall, is a historic home located on the campus of

Bluefield State University Bluefield State University is a public historically black university (HBCU) in Bluefield, West Virginia. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. History The Bluefield Colored Institute was founded in 1895 as a " ...

Bluefield, West Virginia Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 9,658 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Bluefield micropolitan area extending into Virginia, which had a populatio ...

. It was built in 1930 and named after President

Hamilton Hatter Hamilton Hatter (1856–1942) was an African-American professor at Storer College and the first president of Bluefield State College (originally Bluefield Colored Institute) in Bluefield, West Virginia from 1895 to 1906. Life and career Hatter ...

, and is a brick, -story,

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...

-style dwelling. It has one bay side wings and a hipped roof. Also on the property is a stone garage. The house was used as the residence for the college president until 1966. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1999.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Colonial Revival architecture in West Virginia Houses completed in 1930 Bluefield State College Houses in Mercer County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Mercer County, West Virginia University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Buildings and structures in Bluefield, West Virginia University and college presidents' houses {{MercerCountyWV-NRHP-stub