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• On the article This Was Doylestown, 1966

  

  Edward Levenson

  10:35 am on Wednesday, February 8, 2012

  Henry Mercer's "Tiles of the New World," set in concrete, were removed from the high school auditorium in June 1973 by cutting out each panel with a hardened saw. Twenty-nine complete panels, including the concrete backing, remain in storage at the county-owned Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown Township, according to curator Vance Koehler. He said similar "Tiles of the New World" are on public display at the tile works and Fonthill.

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• On the article What Was the Little Stone House in the Fonthill Woods?

  

  Edward Levenson

  3:21 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011

  Laura Swain, Henry Mercer's housekeeper, lived in the Fonthill mansion after Mercer's death in 1930 until September 1974. She died in March 1975 at age 86. Fonthill administrator Edward Reidell said that, to the best of his knowledge, no one lived in the Little Stone House, which lacks water, sewer and electricity.

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