Historic house · Doylestown Township, Bucks County
Fonthill Castle
Henry Chapman Mercer's eccentric poured-concrete castle, a warren of 44 rooms built between 1908 and 1912 and studded with tiles from his own works and from around the world.
What you will find
- Historic features
- Museum or exhibits
Make a day of it
Nearby
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Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
Henry Mercer's Spanish Mission-style concrete tile factory, where artisans still make handmade tiles using his Arts and Crafts designs and methods.
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Doylestown
The Bucks County seat: a walkable downtown of restaurants, boutiques and antique shops, with Henry Mercer's concrete castle, museum and tile works and the Michener Art Museum a few blocks apart.
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James A. Michener Art Museum
Pennsylvania Impressionist landscapes and other art of the Bucks County region, in a museum built inside the walls of the old county jail.
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Mercer Museum
Henry Mercer's six-story concrete castle, packed with tools of early American trades, with a whaleboat, wagons and carriages hanging in its soaring central court.
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Peddler's Village
A village of shops, restaurants and an inn among landscaped gardens in Lahaska, with seasonal festivals and holiday lights.
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Graeme Park
The 1720s stone mansion of colonial governor Sir William Keith, later home of the poet Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, with remarkably original interiors set among open fields.
