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The William Trent House is a historic building located at 15 Market Street in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey. It was built in 1719 for William Trent and is the oldest building in Trenton. [4] He founded the eponymous town, which became the capital of New Jersey.

William Trent built his country home north of Philadelphia, in New Jersey, on ancestral lands of the Lenni Lenape people around 1719. It remained a private home until 1929, when it was donated to the City of Trenton. The House was restored in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration and was dedicated as a museum in 1936 and opened to the ...

About. The 1719 William Trent House Museum is owned and maintained by the City of Trenton and managed and operated by the Trent House Association. The House is a designated National Historic Landmark and is listed in both the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Click image for more. Mission and Vision.

The house is now furnished according to a 1726 inventory of Trent's estate after his death. Today we are Illustrating how life was experienced by all the residents of the house during the 1700s - by wealthy merchant William Trent, his second wife Mary Coddington, their young son William, and the enslaved people who lived on Trent's plantation -

The William Trent House Museum. 15 Market St. Trenton, NJ 08611. (609) 989-3027. Step back almost 300 years in time and visit the oldest building in New Jersey's capital city of Trenton and once home to the man for whom the city is named.

County: Mercer. Municipality: Trenton. The William Trent House is an excellent example of an early Georgian house, located at the site of Leni Lenape settlements for thousands of years prior to English colonization and an early colonial home built by Mahlon Stacy circa 1680.

The William Trent House Museum is the oldest standing structure in Trenton, built in 1719 by Scottish immigrant and founder of Trenton, William Trent. He lived in the home with his second wife, Mary Coddington Trent, his youngest son William Junior and eleven enslaved people. The home served as his country estate and later as a residence for ...

William Trent House. William Trent, with his family and eleven enslaved individuals of African descent, lived on this 1,000-plus acre plantation at the Falls of the Delaware in the colony of West Jersey, which is now the city of Trenton, New Jersey.