April 24, 2024
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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March 21, 2023 8 Comments
Advertising postcards is a phase of the hobby that for many is the most fun – simply because they bring back memories of products and events that haven’t been remembered for years, maybe decades. For sure, after seeing an advertising card, you have said to yourself, “I remember Mom always had a jar of this in the kitchen.” Or, “Hey, I remember Dad cut our grass with a mower like that!”