Fisher Fine Arts Library
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The Fisher Fine Arts Library was the primary library of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1891 to 1962. The red sandstone, brick-and-terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant, part fortress
Fisher Fine Arts Library in March 2024
The glass-roofed book stacks (right) were designed to be continuously expanded.
Main floor plan (1891).
Arthur Ross Gallery (1931), right, and Duhring Wing (1915), far right.
Horace Howard Furness
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Horace Howard Furness was an American Shakespearean scholar of the 19th- and early 20th- centuries.
Fisher Fine Arts Library
…although the initial three-bay stacks were never expanded. Throughout the building are windows inscribed with quotations from Shakespeare, chosen by Horace Howard Furness (Frank's older brother), a University lecturer and a preeminent American Shakespearean scholar of the 19th century. The architect collaborated with…
Horace Howard Furness
Horace Howard Furness in his brick library at "Lindenshade," c. 1910
"Dr. Furness's House, West Washington Square, just before it was torn down." (1914), Joseph Pennell.
Helen Kate Furness, (c. 1880)