January 16, 2025
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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May 23, 2022 5 Comments
Charles E. Turner, a port-side artist based in Liverpool of the 1920s presented Cunard with portraits of ships in their fleet. Taylor, Garnett, and Evans Company published the postcards and they became ship store items and passenger favors throughout the decade. Postcard History has the cards.