December 21, 2024
Tag: Welcome to the Monkey HOuse
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Welcome to the Monkey House
Enrico Caruso and the
First Celebrity Trial
of the 20th Century2 Comments
In the first decade of the 20th century, Enrico Caruso was by all accounts the most popular singer in the world – both an internationally renowned performer and a standard bearer for the phonograph industry. He was, in fact one whose celebrity grew out of a mass media, but he also depended on his charisma,…
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November 11, 2019 2 Comments
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, railroad stations, art museums, libraries, or government offices to the landscape. Read his story and be awed by his creative spirit.