Mercer Museum

  • Also Known As: Bucks Country Historical Society also See Also:Fonthill,Mercer Mu

  • Address: Pine and Ashland Sts
  • Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 am 5 pm, Sunday Noon 5 pm
  • Phone: 215.345.0210
  • Type: Congeries Repository
  • Travel Genus: Sight , Visit , Visit
  • Sight Category: Museums
  • Museum Type: Congeries Repository
  • Available for private functions

This is the only museum I've ever been sufficently interested in to visit. Someday I expect to have a musem which will rival it. Henry Ford

The Mercer Museum is a history museum of everyday life in America during the 18th and 19th centuries. Henry Mercer (1856-1930) gathered the collection and constructed the Museum.The collection of some 40,000 objects documents the lives and tasks of early Americans through the tools that met their needs and wants prior to the Industrial Revolution, or about 1850. Visitors can choose their own paths through the Museum. Most of the 55 exhibit rooms and alcoves display the tools or products of an early American craft, trade or occupation. Other rooms show categories of objects such as lighting devices or architectural hardware. - Mercer Museum


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1916/00/00 Henry Chapman Mercer Architect, Owner From 1913 to 1916, Henry Mercer designs and builds, with a crew of eight men, the new museum of the Bucks County Historical Society, or "Colonial Museum," in Doylestown.
1923/09/00 Henry Ford Visitor Henry Ford visits the Mercer Museum

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Particulars for Mercer Museum:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Education
Area of Significance Engineering
Architectural Style Georgian Revival
Sociology History
Historic Use Library
Museum Type Museum
Level of Significance National
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Area of Significance Science



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 72001097
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Mercer,Dr. Henry
Architectural Style: Colonial revival, Other
Attribute: Georgian Revival
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Engineering, Education, Science, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Significant Year: 1904, 1916
Associated People: Mercer,Dr. Henry
Historic Function: Education, Recreation and Culture
Historic Sub-Function: Museum, Library
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Museum

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