CLOSED: The Ferry House Restaurant on Witherspoon Street

The lights are off and furniture is gone.

A "closed" sign is taped to the front door. No one answered the phone during business hours on Monday. 

The Ferry House Restaurant at 32 Witherspoon Street in Princeton appears to be out of business, less than a year after the State of New Jersey temporarily closed the restaurant for failure to pay taxes, according to Princeton Packet. 

By early Tuesday morning, the restaurant's Facebook page had been deleted. 

The restaurant was owned by Robert Trigg, Jr., who first opened in Lambertville before relocating  to Princeton in 1998. 

State officials closed the restaurant on Oct. 11, 2012. The restaurant reopened on Oct. 25. 

A State Treasury Department spokesman said the state received a judgment against Trigg and the restaurant last year, but the case was dismissed after Ferry House filed a petition in bankruptcy court, the Packet reported. 

Trigg graduated from the Philadelphia Restaurant School and worked as the sous chef at LePlumet Royale at the Peacock Inn in Princeton.