Pennsylvania hotels collection

On the barns of Berks County, painted stars set in circles fill the gable; the German-speaking farmers only added them once paint had become cheap. Further west, in Lancaster County, stone barns are built into the bank, so that the upper floor is entered at ground level, and grey-topped buggies keep to the verge at a walk. Henry Mercer, for his part, poured an entire castle in concrete at Doylestown and set into its walls the ceramic tiles he made. Pittsburgh shows itself from Mount Washington, reached by funicular: one begins counting the bridges, then gives up.