January 15, 2025
Tag: Fruness Library University of Pennsylvania
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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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April 27, 2020 No Comments
This “Day 34” diary entry tells of how someone doing serious historical research needs to avoid the appearance of being a tourist. Research is hard work. Here’s proof.