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	Fonthill, Doylestown Borough, Bucks County PA
		"The house was planned by me, room by room, entirely, from the interior, the exterior not being considered until all the rooms had been imagined and sketched, after which blocks of clay representing the rooms were piled on a table, set together and modelled into a general outline.
		A mid-18th century farm house that was moved onto the property and used as an arboretum.
		The estate of Fonthill is one of the pioneer examples of using reinforced concrete as a building medium.
	www.livingplaces.com /PA/Bucks_County/Doylestown_Borough/Fonthill.html (636 words)

	Fonthill (house) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fonthill was the home of Henry Chapman Mercer, an archaeologist and tile maker.
		Fonthill is one of three poured-in-place concrete structures built by Mercer.
		Fonthill Abbey - a demolished house in England
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fonthill_(house) (177 words)

	Country house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historically, a country house was the centrepiece of an agricultural estate large enough to provide the landowner with sufficient income to be accepted as a member of either the aristocracy or the gentry.
		Most country houses have large grounds comprised of a garden in the immediate vicinity of the house, and a larger park beyond the garden which is grazed by animals, but also has aesthetic and recreational purposes.
		Also, many country house owners and members of their families served as Lord Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace, and local courts were still sometimes held in country houses well into the 19th century; this practice was a holdover from the Medieval manor courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Country_House (2486 words)

	Country House Encyclopedia Article @ ParksAndWildlife.com (Parks and Wildlife) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Historically, a country house was the centrepiece of an agricultural estate large enough to provide the landowner with sufficient income to be accepted as a member of either the Holkham Hall or the Blur.
		Most country houses have large grounds comprised of a hospitals in the immediate vicinity of the house, and a larger 1720s beyond the garden which is grazed by animals, but also has aesthetic and recreational purposes.
		Also, many country house owners and members of their families served as Rousham House and edit, and local courts were still sometimes held in country houses well into the National Trust; this practice was a holdover from the Montacute House manor courts.
	www.parksandwildlife.com /encyclopedia/Country_house (2687 words)

	Fonthill Bed and breakfast, Nairn
		Fonthill is an elegant and comfortable villa residence, set in quarter of an acre in the centre of Nairn.
		Three superb bedrooms are available: a superior double en suite in the main house, and a double and a twin with a luxury shower room and wc in a self-contained annexe with separate entrance.
		Fonthill is ideally situated just off the A96 Inverness to Aberdeen road, close to the centre of Nairn and within a stone's throw of a variety of local restaurants, pubs, the harbour and beaches.
	www.fonthill-nairn.co.uk (296 words)

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		Fonthill was located on the far edge of Doylestown, standing at the center of a large expanse of lawn.
		She spoke of him as if he was a god, and preserved the house as he had left it, but with no apparent understanding of the symbols she had been left to guard.
		Fonthill was left in trust to the community to become the museum it is today.
	homepages.nildram.co.uk /~simmers/44subsol.htm (1000 words)

	pics
		In the Fonthill “castle,” built in 1910, we learned how Mercer hosted many guests who wanted to see his tiles, which are on display in the 44 rooms.
		Because he built the house himself, even though he wasn’t an architect, the floors, walls and staircases are very uneven and the rooms are not placed in an orderly fashion.
		But his house is adorned with many interesting tiles from his factory which are biblical in certain rooms, historical in others, or just decorative.
	www.akibaweb.org /gallery/pics1.htm (614 words)

	Mercer Museum
		D died at his home "Fonthill" yesterday afternoon shortly before 4 o'clock at the age of seventy-four years of a complication of diseases.
		The Mercer home on the "Fonthill" estate, Dr. Mercer's home, is bequeathed to the public for their benefit to be used as a museum.
		The beautiful grounds surrounding "Fonthill" are given to the Doylestown Nature Club to be used for an aboretum to be maintained form the $100,000 "Fonthill" fund.
	www.larryhillpot.com /mercer_museum.htm (2319 words)

	Fonthill Abbey Pavilion - John Claudius Loudon
		Farquhar, having taken a dislike to Fonthill, determined on dividing the estate, and selling it in portions, and on one of these be placed a nephew, and built for him a cloth manufactory.
		This house is badly placed, and it does not appear to us to be much improved by some immense clumps which Mr.
		The Fonthill kitchen-garden also belongs to this part of the property; but it is now let.
	www.gardenvisit.com /garden_history/loudon-garden-tours/fonthillabbeypavilion.htm (340 words)

	II Journal: Aesthetic Reflection and the Colonial Event: The Work of Art in the Age of Slavery
		But perhaps the most original aspect of Fonthills was its setting "at the bottom of a wooded valley on the west margin of an artificial lake, complete with bridge, grotto and unique boathouse, apsed and aisled like a rococo basilica in miniature" (Lees-Milne, 13).
		Fonthill Abbey was to become a living monument to the nature of English Gothic and it is in its Gothicness that it is now read as an affront to the whole discourse on the ordering of the arts which had dominated the 18th century.
		The emphasis was on the irregularity of form and provocative allegory: the house was planned on an irregular cross with a cluster of turrets and gables and an octagon steeple.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol4no3/gikandi.html (3808 words)

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		Fonthill, or Fonthill Castle as some call it, is on the National Register of Historic places as well as a NYC Landmark building.
		Fonthill was used variously as a library and offices by the college.
		A newspaper piece about the Stillwater octagon house shows a lot of detail about the efforts of the current owners to restore the house, which is apparently already in very good condition.
	www.octagon.bobanna.com /NY.html (4807 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE TOWER OF TOOLS
		The house, called Fonthill, was made almost entirely of reinforced concrete, which Mercer liked both because it was fireproof and because it gave him almost complete freedom to design sculpturally.
		Even more than at Fonthill, he designed the museum from the inside out; it was, he said, “made for the collection, while the collection was not made for it.” At the center he put a high, open court arranged to accommodate the largest items he wanted to display.
		Fonthill, Mercer’s fascinating concrete home, and his Moravian Pottery and Tile Works are also open to the public at similar charges and during similar hours.
	americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1989/1/1989_1_26_print.shtml (2521 words)

	No. 1809: Fonthill
		Mercer was a late-nineteenth-century anthropologist who clearly saw that the form and texture of the coming twentieth century would be radically different from anything before it.
		He did it to publicly boast that Fonthill was perfectly fireproof.
		As we leave Fonthill, my wife whispers, "I wouldn't want to live in it." Well, neither would I. The twentieth century brought with it terrible disorientation.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1809.htm (570 words)

	Fonthill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A community in the town of Pelham, Ontario, Canada: see Fonthill, Ontario
		A village in Wiltshire, England: see Fonthill Gifford (also Fonthill Abbey and Fonthill Lake)
		A house in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, constructed by Henry Mercer, see Henry Chapman Mercer
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fonthill (114 words)

	Rose Cottage Fonthill Bishop, nr Tisbury, Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fonthill Bishop and neighbouring Fonthill Gifford are both ancient hamlets, the latter being the site of Fonthill Abbey, now destroyed, which was one of the most remarkable buildings in England in the early 19th century.
		The villages border Fonthill Lake where lovely walks can be enjoyed, the local countryside being some of the finest and most unspoilt in southern England.
		Local places of interest include the ruins of 14th century Wardour Castle, Palladian style Wilton House, not to mention Longleat, (many attractions for children inc. Safari Park) and the beautiful National Trust gardens at Stourhead with their lakes, temples and specimen trees.
	www.hideaways.co.uk /holiday-cottage/wiltshire-rose-cottage-h152.html (233 words)

	William Beckford - LoveToKnow 1911
		He afterwards returned to England, and after selling his old house, Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, began to build a magnificent residence there, on which he expended in about eighteen years the sum of 273,00o.
		His eccentricities, together with the strict seclusion in which he lived, gave rise to scandal, probably unjustified.
		In 1822 he sold his house, together with its splendid library and pictures, to John Farquhar, and soon after one of the towers, 260 ft. high, fell, destroying part of the villa in the ruins.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /William_Beckford (393 words)

	Description
		But by the beginning of the 19th Century the house was in an advanced state of decay and stripped of its furnishings, and the Rural Dean reported that the church was in ruins.
		However, in 1859 Alfred Morrison, who had acquired the splendid house at Fonthill Gifford, which had been built bv the eccentric William Beckford for his daughters, obtained a faculty to restore the church at Berwick at his own expense.
		By the 1880s Berwick House was in use onlv as a hen house but in about 1900 Hugh Morrison married Ladv Mary Leveson Gower who liked the remains of the house and had them moved stone by stone to Ashley Wood.
	users.chariot.net.au /~ramacs/description.htm (371 words)

	Fonthill, Mercer Museum, Moravian Pottery & Tile Works
		Built entirely of hand-mixed concrete between 1908 to 1910, the Fonthill Museum is the former Mercer home.
		The interior of Fonthill is a showcase for Mercer's original decorative tiles, with walls, ceilings, and floors covered in intricate and colorful hand-made tiles.
		The ever-expanding collection houses over 50,000 tools and artifacts and represents the heritage of Bucks County along with early Americana history.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/art_museums/86289 (518 words)

	Off The Beaten Path In Bucks
		His three buildings in Doylestown—the Mercer Museum, Fonthill, and the Moravian Tile Works—attest to his lifelong passion for the romantic, and they are as fascinating today as they were when he built them.
		The house is part of the Delaware Canal State Park, but it is maintained and kept open thanks to an arrangement with the Friends of the Delaware Canal, who restored it and serve as volunteer tour guides.
		Court Street and Center Avenue, Newtown, PA (215-968-4004)—The house that serves as headquarters for the Newtown Historical Association was built in 1734 and was a public tavern until 1818, when it was bought by a local hatter.
	www.areaguidebook.com /2003archives/path-bucks.htm (1775 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Travel
		Fonthill stands in 60 acres of rolling lawns and woods at the end of an avenue of sycamores.
		The 44-room house is an eccentric fusion of modern and medieval: Staircases coil into rooms of organic asymmetry with soaring columns, grand fireplaces and vaulted ceilings, illuminated by dangling low-wattage light bulbs.
		As a collector, Mercer planned Fonthill as a museum to display his collections, primarily tiles -- from ancient Babylonian clay tablets, to delft, to Chinese roof tiles -- and as a showplace for his own spectacular decorative tile work.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/travel/escapes/040799.htm (1353 words)

	Engravings of Fonthill: a checklist [Jon Millington]
		At the end are views of Fonthill published as free-standing prints, followed by plans from catalogues of later sales of the Fonthill Estate.
		The Principal front of Fonthill in Wiltshire, the Seat of the late Wm Beckford Esqre.
		Fonthill House in Wiltshire, the Seat of William Beckford Esqr.
	beckford.c18.net /wbfonthillengravingslist.html (1643 words)

	Doylestown Patriot - BCHS to mark Henry Mercer's 150th birthday
		Museum interpreters will be stationed throughout the house to explain the artifacts and help visitors discover the major themes in Mercer's life.
		Fee for the open house is $4 for adults and $2 for youths ages 5-17.
		Fonthill Museum is located on Route 313 and East Court Street in Doylestown.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=1685&dept_id=45280&newsid=16824080&PAG=461&rfi=9 (651 words)

	A Visit to Fonthill
		Fonthill Abbey was almost grotesquely vast: the tower of the Great Octagon soared upwards for 300 feet, and was so fantastically perpendicular that it collapsed several times, the final time in 1825 due to improper foundations.
		The main entrance to Fonthill estate is beneath a most charming Entrance Lodge (still occupied), once the gateway to Beckford's father's mansion Fonthill Splendens.
		A narrow lane beside it leads down to a bridge on Fonthill Lake, where there is a unique boat house with 12 stone pillars and arches, tumbling into ruins like a watery basilica.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /beckfor3.htm (1915 words)

	Henry Chapman Mercer and the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works
		Fonthill, built between 1908 and 1910, is a testament to Henry Mercer's vivid imagination.
		Mercer dubbed Fonthill a "concrete castle for the New World," which he left as "a museum of decorative tiles and prints." Guided tours provide educational opportunities for visitors of all ages and add insight to the world class collection that surrounded Mercer during his life.
		The Bucks County Historical Society administers Fonthill, the Mercer Museum and the Spruance Library, and is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
	www.tiles.org /pages/mptw/mercer.htm (1049 words)

	ipedia.com: William Thomas Beckford Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was born in Fonthill, Wiltshire, in the manor house owned by his father, former Lord Mayor of London Willi...
		He was born in Fonthill, Wiltshire, in the manor house owned by his father, former Lord Mayor of London William Beckford.
		The opportunity of purchasing the complete library of Edward Gibbon gave Beckford the basis of his own library, and James Wyatt built Fonthill Abbey, in which this and the owner's art collection would be housed; it was completed in 1807.
	www.ipedia.com /william_thomas_beckford.html (397 words)

	Review: The memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, author of "Vathek" (1860) by anonymous
		At Fonthill there was a very fine collection of paintings, many of them by Dutch masters, and it was his delight to hear the housekeeper describe them as she went her rounds with strangers.
		His father's house at Fonthill was one of the finest of its day in the kingdom; but it did not satisfy the son, and he resolved that his new creation should have no rival.
		The old house did not interfere with the new, being on a different site; but no thought of disposing of it seems to have entered his mind, and, princely as it was, he proceeded to demolish it, — first the wings, of two stories, and then the centre, of four.
	gaslight.mtroyal.ca /beckford.htm (7956 words)

	Doylestown, Pennsylvania - Mercer Museum, Fonthill, and Moravian Tile Works
		The museum was built solely to house his collection (never as a home), which includes everything from canoes and carriages to tools, pottery, and even a Vampire Killing Kit (always my favorite exhibit).
		Fonthill, Mercer's home, is great for an interesting tour, including a bedroom where the story of Bluebeard is told in picture-tiles on the wall.
		The grounds of Fonthill and the Tileworks are beautiful, with a small patch of woods for walking and plenty of open space for a picnic or frisbee game.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==1088 (519 words)

	The British Stable: An architectural and social history: stables have found a champion in this beautifully illustrated ...
		The chapter on 'The riding house and the forgotten art of haute ecole' describes the long, narrow covered barns used by Jacobean and Stuart courtiers for the art of teaching horses to dance.
		Of course, these increasingly-elaborate versions of a functional building were for show, and like the reception rooms in a house would be visited by their owner and his friends.
		Although there was a late flowering of the riding house in eighteenth-century London--for the use of the soldiers, for example, whose riding house gave its name to Riding House Street near Great Portland Street--in Britain there are no galleried equivalents of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_520_161/ai_n15630934 (896 words)

	Amazon.com: Fonthill : The Home of Henry Chapman Mercer--An American Architectural Treasure in Historic Bucks County, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fonthill served as Mercer's residence and a personal museum for his decorative tiles, prints and artifacts from 1912 until his death in 1930.
		Fonthill: The Home Of Henry Chapman Mercer is an informative survey and presentation of this architectural achievement, enhanced throughout with photography (22 b/w, 56 color), heretofore unpublished illustrations, as well as sketches and comments from mercer's own construction notebook.
		Fonthill: The Home Of Henry Chapman Mercer is very highly recommended reading for architectural students and anyone with an interest in American architectural history and the National Historic Landmark series.
	www.amazon.com /Fonthill-Mercer-American-Architectural-Pennsylvania/dp/0964584425 (1170 words)

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