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)
Idlewild is a historic building near Media, Pennsylvania, designed by the Victorian-era Philadelphia architect Frank Furness as a summer cottage for his family. He spent summers there until his death
Frank Furness's summer cottage from the front
Front entrance and porch
Apse-end w/ wrap-around porch
Idlewild window detail