Henry Chapman Mercer

Perknose

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I find every last detail of my life endlessly fascinating . . . and I'm supremely confident you do, too! ;)

My friend Marilyn and I often take walks in the woods surrounding Fonthill, built entirely out of concrete and endlessly adorned with tiles by Mr. Mercer.

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In those woods behind Fonthill is a small structure which was pretty much abandoned, and stupidly covered with spray-canned graffiti. We always passed it in our travels, and would opine to each other how somebody else ought to lead a restoration of it. Well, Marilyn just sent me videoed news from AssFaceBook that this very thing is now happening.

Yay! :)

If you're ever in these parts, go visit the Mercer Museum. It's fascinating.

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Cliffs: Doylestown. It's kewl. And, by extension, that makes me kewl. :cool:
 
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lxskllr

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Interesting place. Idiotbook wouldn't let me see the video, but I read the previous site. I like his design philosophy. I try to avoid east PA, but I'm tempted to check the place out. Might improve my opinion of the region :^D
 

Mayne

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I'm always fascinated by unique architecture. The only places I've seen in the last 40 years was this hexagonal house on bayview avenue in toronto....but that just got sold for 4 milion dollars to be torn down...the other is Casa Loma. Which I hope never gets torn down...but you never know with these condo developers.