Frank Furness
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Frank Heyling Furness was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinatel
Furness in 1901
University of Pennsylvania Library, Philadelphia (1891), now the Fisher Fine Arts Library
Main Reading Room, looking north
Germantown Unitarian Church (1866–67, demolished ca. 1928)
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the U
Frank Furness
…in the 20th century. Among his most important surviving buildings are the University of Pennsylvania Library, now the Fisher Fine Arts Library, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, all in Philadelphia, and the Baldwin School Residence Hall in Bryn Mawr. Furness was born in Philadelphia…
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Center City Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' 1806 building featured in an 1809 engraving
Share of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, issued in May 1860
PAFA's 1845 building from a photograph, c. 1870