Gershom Craft House

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The Gershom Craft House, built around 1806–1808, is a fine example of Federal-style architecture in Morrisville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It sits across the Delaware River, about 2 miles from Trenton, New Jersey, and is also known as Pomona Farm. Gershom Craft, a Trenton businessman, built the house as a summer home on a large 84-acre farm he named Pomona after the Roman goddess of fruit trees. Craft planted more than 100 kinds of fruit there and was active in local business and politics, owning a Federalist newspaper and helping with the Trenton Water Works and Trenton Banking Company. The house features four main rooms, each roughly 18 by 18 feet and 9 feet tall; about 90% of its woodwork and hardware is original. In 1911 the farm was subdivided and became part of the Borough of Morrisville. It is one of only two Morrisville houses on the National Register of Historic Places; the other is Summerseat, where Washington stayed before the Battle of Trenton. The property now covers about 0.75 acres and includes a smokehouse, a carriage house, and a small wood-frame shop. It was added to the National Register in 1986 (reference number 86002892).