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Douglass House (Trenton, New Jersey)

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building Type
House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Trenton, United States 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1766 3
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Douglass House (Trenton, New Jersey) (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglass_House_(Trenton,_New_Jersey), lead definition
    The Douglass House is a historic house at the corner of Front and Montgomery Streets in the Mill Hill neighborhood of the city Trenton in Mercer County, New Jersey.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
    The Douglass House is a historic house at the corner of Front and Montgomery Streets in the Mill Hill neighborhood of the city Trenton in Mercer County, New Jersey. It served as George Washington's headquarters prior to the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777. Listed as the Bright-Douglass House, it was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936, when the house was located in
  • In Style: Federal Architecture, Infobox, architecture
    architecture: Federal, Side-hall Plan
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2. Douglass House (Trenton, New Jersey) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 387517): Trenton, United States
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 387517): Trenton, United States
Wikidata item Q5302177, property P131/P17 (location): Trenton, United States
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3. Douglass House (Trenton, New Jersey) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1766)
Quote, Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1766)
Wikidata item Q5302177, inception (P571): year 1766
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