Henry Chapman Mercer The Pennsylvania State Capitol Building Moravian Tile Floor.
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Transcript of Henry Chapman Mercer The Pennsylvania State Capitol Building Moravian Tile Floor.
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Henry Chapman Mercer
The Pennsylvania State Capitol Building Moravian Tile Floor
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The largest artwork in the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building is the tile floor designed and made
by Henry Chapman Mercer of Doylestown.It covers 16,000 square feet!
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Mercer apprenticed himself to a local potter to learn the trade.He felt that the tiles should use local clay and be made by hand.
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“It is the life of the people,” Mercer wrote.
Some of the mosaic tiles depict scenes from everyday
life.
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Some of the tiles show inventions and
tools.
What are some modern inventions that Mercer could
add if he were alive today?
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Many of the tiles depict the animals that are native to
Pennsylvania.
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Tiles produced at the Moravian Tile Works.