August 25, 2026
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,…
Past Article
March 29, 2021 6 Comments
Once again postcards document a topical history from the founding of our nation to the present. This time a glimpse of education in North Carolina is presented with eleven rare cards showing historically black colleges and universities.