[1] The building was designed by Albert L. Harris and Arthur B. Heaton in the Colonial Revival style and completed in 1926.

It was the second building built on the Foggy Bottom campus after Corcoran Hall.

[2] The structure is named after Charles Herbert Stockton, a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy who served as the GW President from 1910 to 1918.

Stockton Hall is a concrete and steel frame structure covered in red brick and sandstone.

It is similar in style to Corcoran Hall, across University Yard to the west.