Editing Doylestown, Pennsylvania (section)

== Arts and culture ==
[[File:MercerMuseum.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Mercer Museum]]]]
[[File:Fonthill Castle.JPG|thumb|upright=1|[[Fonthill (house)|Fonthill Castle]]]]
Doylestown Borough is home to three structures designed and built by Henry Chapman Mercer.  The [[Mercer Museum]], a structure built in poured concrete, is the home to Mercer's collection of early American artifacts.  It also houses a collection known as "Tools of the Nation-Maker", one of the most important of its kind in the world.<ref>"Ancient Carpenter's Tools: Illustrated and Explained, Together with the Implements of the Lumbermen, Joiner and Cabinet-Maker in use in the 18th Century", Henry Chapman Mercer, Bucks County Historical Society, 1929, {{ISBN|0-486-40958-9}} page viii.</ref> Bucks County Historical Society also maintains the Spruance Library, a research library, adjoining the museum. [[Fonthill (house)|Fonthill]] (also known as "Mercer's Castle") was Mercer's home and houses his collection of artifacts from around the world.  The [[Moravian Pottery and Tile Works]] is an operational facility utilizing the tools and techniques used by [[Pennsylvania German]] potters in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The former prison, across the street from the Mercer Museum, has been converted into the [[James A. Michener Art Museum]].  The borough also boasts a small music conservatory, writers' and artists' organizations, and other cultural activities.

Doylestown is located near the [[Polish-American]] [[Roman Catholic]] shrine known as the [[National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa]], which houses a painting of the [[Black Madonna]] of [[Częstochowa]], Poland.

[[The Fountain House (Doylestown, Pennsylvania)|The Fountain House]], a historic building, is located in Doylestown Borough.

=== Points of interest ===
* [[Delaware Valley University]]
* [[Fonthill (house)|Fonthill Museum]]
* [[Hepatitis B Foundation]]
* [[Henry Schmieder Arboretum]]
* [[James A. Michener Art Museum]]
* [[Mercer Museum]]
* [[Moravian Pottery and Tile Works]]
* [[National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa]]
* [[Oscar Hammerstein II Farm]]
* [[Peace Valley Park]]
* [[Green Hills Farm|Pearl S. Buck House]]
* [[Ringing Rocks Park]]