House of William Houston

Embedded within the structure of the 19th-century hotel known as the Trenton House was the residence of William C. Houston, a Princeton-educated Trenton attorney who was one of the New Jersey representatives at the Continental Congress of 1784. Houston’s dwelling is discernible in this photograph as a five-bay, two-story Georgian-style residence fronting on to North Warren Street at the corner of East Hanover. The house was built by paper manufacturer John Reynolds in the late 1770s and was briefly owned by Barnt DeKlyn before being acquired by William Houston.

[credit: photograph courtesy Trentoniana Collection, Trenton Public Library]