Doylestown Historical Society

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#Camping together 🏛 Doylestown is a small treasure-like town with more than 100 years of history that is PA's self-driving 2.5h hour drive from New York. The town is built by the British family, mainly for the castle of Fonthill Castle. I didn't expect it to be hidden in such a treasure classical town. Full of Victorian architecture ❣️Fonthill Castle The castle is located in a huge courtyard. At the end of the lind path, you will see this Gothic castle building. There are 44 rooms, 18 fireplaces and 200 windows in the castle. The tour is a guided tour. There will be a guide. It is said that if the team is not followed up, You'll be lost in this intricate castle. The castle is as capricious as its owner Henry Chapman Mercer. There is no architectural sketch design before the construction starts. The construction is conceived while the building is complete. It can be said that it is a completely empty architectural process. When visiting, don’t forget to look up at the roof of various styles. It’s like entering the artifact museum of the magic world. , a six-storey museum built in 1916, displaying the charm of pre-industrial handmade. It features the layout of the exhibits in the museum, all of which are hung, including large carriages and whaling ships. The pavilion is made of concrete pouring. This building material is the one Mercer hopes that his collection will be saved from the fire. You can visit the museum opposite the various furniture, carriages, stoves, gallows, antique fire trucks, etc. in the early United States. Located in the stone wall of an ancient 19th century prison, part of the prison wall has been preserved, and the museum displays visual art works, collecting more than 3,000 paintings and sculptures from the colonial period to the present. After several expansions, the current mixed Italian and Roman revival style art museum has four museums to visit: Fonthill Castle, Moravian Pottery & Tile Works Museum, Mercer Museum, Michener Art Museum▪️ There is a white Starbucks in the city center, except that the doors and windows are painted as Starbucks green. The whole building is pure white for literature and art. The Victorian-style building is integrated with the whole town. If you don’t look at the map carefully, you won’t notice this white Starbucks at all.