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Looking out the picture window in the Columbis Room in Fonthill Castle - located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is probably the only remaining original castle built in Pennsylvania. Henry Chapman Mercer began construction in 1908 at the age of 52 and comp
Looking out the picture window in the Columbis Room in Fonthill Castle - located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is probably the only remaining original castle built in Pennsylvania. Henry Chapman Mercer began construction in 1908 at the age of 52 and completed construction in 1912. He used steel reinforced concrete that was hand mixed, hauled by Lucy his draft horse and hand laid. Henry was not an architect but learned how to build from books and his trips to Europe. The castle has 10 bathrooms, 5 bedrooms, 5 terraces, 18 fireplaces, 32 stairwells, more than 200 windows, an Otis elevator and 21 chimneys and air vents. Henry died in 1930 at the age of 74 and willed the castle to the Bucks County Historical Society with the stipulation that Frank King Swain, the Moravian Tile manager and his wife Laura Swain, Henry’s housekeeper, could live in the castle. Laura continued to provide tours until her death in 1975.
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Looking out the picture window in the Columbis Room in Fonthill Castle - located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is probably the only remaining original castle built in Pennsylvania. Henry Chapman Mercer began construction in 1908 at the age of 52 and comp
Looking out the picture window in the Columbis Room in Fonthill Castle - located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is probably the only remaining original castle built in Pennsylvania. Henry Chapman Mercer began construction in 1908 at the age of 52 and completed construction in 1912. He used steel reinforced concrete that was hand mixed, hauled by Lucy his draft horse and hand laid. Henry was not an architect but learned how to build from books and his trips to Europe. The castle has 10 bathrooms, 5 bedrooms, 5 terraces, 18 fireplaces, 32 stairwells, more than 200 windows, an Otis elevator and 21 chimneys and air vents. Henry died in 1930 at the age of 74 and willed the castle to the Bucks County Historical Society with the stipulation that Frank King Swain, the Moravian Tile manager and his wife Laura Swain, Henry’s housekeeper, could live in the castle. Laura continued to provide tours until her death in 1975.
To see higher quality photos, see more at my main website www.imagesofwildlife.com
See My Blog: www.imagesofwildlife.blogspot.com