April 16, 2026
Tag: Brooks Mansion
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Frank Furness, Philadelphian
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Walking into a building for the first time seldom prompts the question, who was the architect? Names like Wright, van der Rohe, Gropius, Pei and Fuller come to mind, but Furness? – not so much. Frank Furness isn’t well known beyond his home town of Philadelphia, but his forty year career brought over six-hundred homes,…
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The curtain was about to fall on Atlantic Crossings aboard ships when the Italians launched a new ocean-liner whose name would be learned around the globe. It was a last-ditched attempt to prove to the world that in post-war Europe, they were down but certainly not out.