Tag: oddities
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Pennsylvania – Bucks County
Outside Philadelphia – This is the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, (Bucks County) Pennsylvania. Henry Mercer inherited his money from a maiden aunt and with this money he started collecting objects of everyday life, convinced that the history of Bucks County was the history of the world. At first he did all the collecting himself, but…
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Palm Springs – Oddities
This is one of my favorite types of architecture. Scavenger, innovative, a tad crazy and an absolute representation of the person that built it. This is the home of Cabot Yerxa. He was the son of a fabulously wealthy family that lost it all. He was a creative, innovative and wealthy man by his own…