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The Fonthill garage, built in 1913, replaced the wooden bank bam which previously occupied this site. HCM preserved the effect of the original one-story lean-to by a vaulted concrete arcade along the same side.
1914	July: decided to equip Fonthill as a museum for the study of the history of tiles, and to this end began commissioning the purchase of tiles from missionaries and dealers world wide.
Published The Bible in Iron, a book based on his researches into the cast iron stoveplates of the 18th century Pennsylvania Germans.
1914-1918 World War I: terrible time for HCM, who had close family relations and many friends in Germany. Many stories circulated about Mercer’s German sympathies. He criticized U.S. foreign policy severely, in letters to newspapers and friends, and filled large scrapbooks with newspaper clippings relating to the war.
This elegant, tile-roofed springhouse replaced the previous stone structure near the Fonthill mansion. Its graceful loggia, whose low arches and vaults spring from diminutive columns, is reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance palaces Mercer visited.
HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY