Fonthill castle

Fonthill Castle Estate, Doylestown, PA

FONTHILL CASTLE. Thousands of handcrafted ceramic tiles were inset throughout, including Henry Mercer's own Moravian-style tiles plus Persian, Chinese, Spanish, and Dutch productions he collected. Today, the 60-acre Bucks County estate serves as a museum to pre-industrial life, with 900 American and European prints at Fonthill. East Court St. and Rt. 313, Doylestown, PA.

Mercer Museum & Foothill Castle, Doylestown "Atrium of Mercer Museum, Henry Mercer was an anthropologist who collected preindustrial artifacts during his life from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. He built the Foothill Castle, his home, and Moravian Pottery and Tile Works from concrete, in order to make them fireproof and to protect their contents. The Mercer Museum, located inside his gigantic castle-like structure, showcases his life's work.

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THE CEMETERY OF FORGOTTEN BOOKS This is a place of mystery, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. This place was already ancient when my father brought me here for the first time, many years ago. Perhaps as old as the city itself. Nobody knows for certain how…

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Fonthill Castle | Doylestown, PA

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

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