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The barn at Fonthill, before it was replaced by a garage (see illustration on next page). A ramp provided access for wagons to the barn’s second story (left). A one-story lean-to screened off the eastern side (right). Laborers in the foreground are working at the second-story level of the Annex (northern wing of Fonthill).
Their A-frame hoist can be seen behind the figure on the left.
1913	March: the wooden superstructure of the old bank barn next to Fonthill was torn down and a new concrete garage begun.
April: HCM purchased his first cement mixer.
Excavations began across town from Fonthill for a new museum (now the Mercer Museum). Mercer constructed the new museum adjacent to the Elkins Building, which was already inadequate to house the rapidly expanding tool collections of the BCHS.
Spring or Summer: constructed a new concrete springhouse on the site of the old stone springhouse at the southwest end of Fonthill. The new building featured a vaulted loggia on two sides, a peaked roof covered with Spanish style red tiles from the next door pottery, and beautiful tile decorations inside.
During 1913 the Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston, awarded HCM a bronze medal —its highest honor. He was the first potter to receive this award; only three other potters ever received it.
April. 1913. HCM's construction crew is shown in front of the barn. Only the stonework remains of the old structure, interspersed with the new concrete piers already poured as supports for the new garage. In the background is the brand-new Bolte concrete mixer—HCM's first—purchased for $250.	*
24 HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY