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The Mercer Museum, nearly completed. HCM built a concrete overpass (left) to join it to the Elkins building of the BCHS. The new museum, unlike Fonthill. was not wired for electricity. Instead. HCM relied upon natural light, provided by numerous windows, to illuminate his exhibits.
1916	June: awarded honorary Doctor of Science degree by Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.
June 17: presented his new museum building to the BCHS. After his death it became known as the Mercer Museum (see 1913).
Spring: Frank Swain moved into Fonthill. (He and Laura Long Swain are the only HCM staff known positively to have lived in the house; over the years a varying number ofhired hands helped with cooking, cleaning, maintenance, yard and chauffeur duties.)
The interior of the Mercer Museum, showing the central gallery, four stories high, hung with artifacts. The whale boat near the top of the photograph was acquired in 1907 by HCM in New Bedford, Mass.
HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER: AN ANNOTATED CHRONOLOGY