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The Dormer Room of Fonthill, in an early photograph. This chamber served first as HCM’s bedroom and later as Frank Swain's. French tapestry woven with a colorful woodland scene was used to cover the walls around the bed.
1912 March 27: fire broke out in one room of the pottery at Aldie, destroying wooden drying racks and tiles and damaging the roof.
The western elevation of the newly-completed Moravian Pottery building on Swamp Road (c. 1912).
1912 October 12: HCM’s new pottery was completed. Equipment and crew moved from “old” Indian House to new “without disturbing the work in progress,” Mercer recorded. Mercer christened the large studio at the southwest corner of the new pottery, “the new Indian House,” since it copied many architectural details of the original. To complete the resemblance, Mercer’s duplicate collection of‘Tools of the Nation Maker” was moved in from the original Indian House (see note following entry for 1901).
1912	May 29: HCM at last moved into Fonthill. Laura Long, his housekeeper from Linden, moved into the Fonthill “Annex.” Mercer’s name for the wing designed as servants’ quarters.
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An interior view of a portion of the western wall of the new Indian House studio, showing tile mosaics lined up on a ledge above the fireplace and neighboring wall-surface.
HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY