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Mercer Museum, Pine & Ashland Streets, Doylestown, Bucks County, PA
Summary
See also HAER PA-107 for additional documentation. Includes photographs (photographs 67 & 68).
Significance: A pioneering example of the use of reinforced concrete. An eclectic interpretation of Medieval styles, the building was designed for the Bucks County Historical Society by antiquarian and inventor, Henry Chapman Mercer (1856-1930). The building houses Mercer's huge collection of pre-industrial tools, machines and implements.
Survey number: HABS PA-1007
Building/structure dates: 1913-1916 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1933-1936 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1974 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 85002366
Tags
Date
1915 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Mercer, Henry Chapman
Labs, William
Vulcanite Cement Company
Buffalo Steel Company
New Jersey Wire Cloth Company
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
A. Oscar Martin & Son
Shappell & Crothers
Moravian Pottery & Tile Works
Bassett, William B, historian
Null, Druscilla J, historian
Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Peterson, C E, photographer
Location
Doylestown, 40.31019, -75.12470
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
