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"Fonthill, also known as Fonthill Castle, was the home of the American archeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces and 10 bathrooms. The home was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonthill_(house)
Christina Proteau
[Fonthill, ON] – August 28, 2018 – Canadian Women's Mid Am & Senior Lookout Point Country Club
Photo by: Golf Canada
Shot with an infrared filter on my DSLR. 75 sec. exposure. Post-processing in PS, Topaz B&W Effects.
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These photos were taken in Fonthill Cemetary, Fonthill, ON - October 30, 2010 by Crack'd Lens Photography
Lauraine Letarte
[Fonthill, ON] – August 28, 2018 – Canadian Women's Mid Am & Senior Lookout Point Country Club
Photo by: Golf Canada
Fonthill was the home of the American archaeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces and 10 bathrooms. The interior was originally painted in various pastel colors, but age and sunlight have all but eradicated any hint of the former hues. It contains much built-in furniture and is embellished with decorative tiles that Mercer made at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. It is filled with an extensive collection of ceramics embedded in the concrete of the house, as well as other artifacts from his world travels, including cuneiform tablets discovered in Mesopotamia dating back to over 2300 BCE. The home also contains around 1,000 prints from Mercer's extensive collection, as well as over six thousand books, almost all of which were annotated by Mercer himself. Tours are available daily.
A Mark IV set glides through Clondalkin/Fonthill Station on its way to Heuston. 219 was doing the honours at the rear.
Fonthill is the residence that archaeologist Henry Chapman Mercer built. He had no formal architecture training and did not use a blueprint! The house has 44 rooms and is full of eclectic things: columns in random places, collections of tiles from around the world, boiler plates, Babylonian tablets, etc. Each room in the tour was decorated with a different lovely Christmas tree during the holidays. Unfortunately, photography is not allowed within the house.
In 1908, Mercer began building Fonthill, his shadowy, medieval, concrete castle in Doylestown, filling every nook and cranny with his magnificent handmade tiles as well as 1,564 foreign tiles from his collection (including 33 Babylonian tablets embedded and displayed in ceramic). Employing between 8 to 12 laborers, Mercer fashioned Fonthill into a home like none other – one that consists of 44 rooms, (including ten bathrooms and five bedrooms) 32 stairwells, 200 windows, 18 fireplaces, and 21 chimneys and air vents.
2018 Canadian Women's Mid-Amateur & Senior Championship in Fonthill, Ontario on August 30, 2018. Photo: Claus Andersen
Pieced by Nellie Zonneveld, custom quilting by Kelly Corfe. The Quilting Bee Quilt Shop, Fonthill, Ontario, Canada.
Taken from an exterior upper balcony at Fonthill Castle in Doylestown, PA.
This castle was built between 1908-1912 by a tile maker to showcase his tiles. The tileworks is across the street. The entire building is constructed of concrete. Henry Mercer lived in it and gave tours to potential tile clients. Every room has different tiles all over the floors, walls and ceilings. Too bad we were not allowed to take pictures inside!
The cost to build this place was relatively low because Mercer was all about recycling. He used many found items and scrap materials in his construction. He made up the construction techniques as he went. It is a fascinating place to visit.
Here is a link to the museum website if you are interested in learning more.
The boys and I had to drive up to Doylestown the day after the hurricane so we stopped by Font Hill. It was closed of course, but we saw some deer run across the driveway and took some photos.
Judith Kyrinis
[Fonthill, ON] – August 28, 2018 – Canadian Women's Mid Am & Senior Lookout Point Country Club
Photo by: Golf Canada
Mercer's home, Fonthill, which, like the museum he built nearby, is also a concrete structure. It is completely filled with tiles made in his factory and served as a show room for his greatest works as well as his home.
Fonthill was the home of the archeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces and 10 bathrooms. The interior was originally painted in pastel colors, but age and sunlight have all but eradicated any hint of the former hues. It contains much built-in furniture and is embellished with decorative tiles that Mercer made at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement.
2018 Canadian Women's Mid-Amateur & Senior Championship in Fonthill, Ontario on August 30, 2018. Photo: Claus Andersen
This shot is of that little pagoda-like structure in the foreground of the previous shot, taken at the Fonthill Museum. It’s another example of something I mentioned earlier in my photostream. Sometimes a badly underexposed shot (see below), one that you might otherwise throw away, can be restored quite nicely – for example, by using the shadow/highlight feature of Photoshop (I did a few other adjustments as well on this one).
The downside is not knowing when to throw a shot away! My thinking lately is that if a shot has a decent composition, or the potential for a decent composition by cropping, and if it’s a unique shot in that I didn’t take another one like it… then I’ll keep it, even if the exposure or focus looks terrible. But if I’ve taken multiple shots of the same scene (in order to get the exposure, focus, or composition just right), then I might delete the ones that were less than optimal.