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Doylestown is a borough and the county seat of Bucks County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located 27 miles (43 km) north of Philadelphia and 80 miles (130 km) west of New York City. As of the 2010 census, the borough population was 8,380. In the decade following World War II, Doylestown’s business community boomed. During the 1940s, streets were paved for the first time in two decades and parking meters were introduced downtown in 1948. However, the Borough’s post-war housing boom did not begin in earnest until the 1950s, when 550 new homes were built. This housing boom continued into the 1960s and 1970s, as more than 1,600 new homes were built during those decades and the Borough’s population grew from 5,917 in 1960 to 8,717 in 1980. As the Philadelphia metropolitan area expanded from southern into central Bucks County, the fields and farms of the communities around Doylestown quickly began to sprout housing developments. This development brought thousands of people to the area, but the neighborhoods created often lacked longstanding institutions or discernible centers. Doylestown, more centrally located than Delaware River border town, New Hope, PA, which had traditionally served this function, was able to position itself as the regional center of culture and nightlife.

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. The Bucks County Historical Society also maintains the Spruance Library, a research library, adjoining the museum. 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.

Fonthill, also known as Fonthill Castle, was the home of the American archeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces and 10 bathrooms. The home was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The Mercer Museum is a museum located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia. The Bucks County Historical Society operates the museum, as well as the Spruance Library and Fonthill, former home of the museum’s founder, archeologist Henry Chapman Mercer. The museum was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and was later included in a National Historic Landmark District along with the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and Fonthill. These three structures are the only poured-in-place concrete structures built by Mercer.

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RATING* SCHOOL NAME GRADES SCHOOL TYPE
5 Kutz El School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
4 Pine Run Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
5 Linden Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
5 Doyle Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
4 Groveland Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
4 Cold Spring Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
5 Gayman Elementary School Kindergarten - 6th Grade Public
5 Lenape Middle School 7th Grade - 9th Grade Public
5 Holicong Middle School 7th Grade - 9th Grade Public
5 Tohickon Middle School 7th Grade - 9th Grade Public
4 Central Bucks High School-West 10th Grade - 12th Grade Public
5 Central Bucks High School-East 10th Grade - 12th Grade Public
N/A Our Lady Of Mount Carmel Preschool - 8th Grade Catholic/Religious
N/A Children's Village At Doylestown Hospital Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A A Childs World Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Building Blocks Learning Center Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Atg Learning Academy Kindergarten - 12th Grade Private/Charter
N/A Montessori Development Center Preschool - 3Rd Grade Private/Charter
N/A Learning Experience Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Lifeworks Academy 6th Grade - 12th Grade Private/Charter
N/A The Goddard School Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A The Goddard School Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Good Beginnings Kindergarten Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Kinder Works Of Doylestown Preschool - 6th Grade Private/Charter
N/A New Hope Academy 6th Grade - 12th Grade Private/Charter
N/A The Curiosity Shoppe Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
N/A Community Educational Center Preschool - Kindergarten Private/Charter
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