Douglass House (Trenton, New Jersey)

The Douglass House is a historic house at the corner of Front and Montgomery Streets in the Mill Hill neighborhood of Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, built around 1766 by Jacob Bright in the Federal style with a side hall plan. Bright sold the house in 1769 to Alexander Douglass, a quartermaster in the Continental Army, and it served as George Washington headquarters before the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777. The Historic American Buildings Survey documented the house in 1936, when it stood in Mahlon Stacy Park near the Delaware River. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1970, listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, and designated a contributing property to the Mill Hill Historic District on December 12, 1977.