Tools of the Trade

The Mercer Museum in Doylestown, PA is a six-story reinforced concrete castle designed by Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930) and completed in 1916. Today, it is one of Bucks County’s premier cultural attractions and a Smithsonian affiliate. The museum complex features local and national traveling exhibits, as well as a core museum collection of over 50,000 pre-Industrial tools.

Henry Mercer was an American archeologist, artifact collector, tile-maker, and designer of three distinctive poured concrete structures: the Mercer Museum, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, and his home, Fonthill Castle.