December 15, 2025
Tag: Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts
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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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They don’t say it anymore, but once it was common knowledge that “Wall Street was no place for women.” But, when Hetty Green came along in the 1890s, with money to invest, and wasn’t shy about forcing her financial influence on the men, they called her the Witch of Wall Street.