Frank Furness
✓ Source-basedrisingPhiladelphia architect and United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1839-1912)
Frank Heyling Furness was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinately scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago-based architect Louis Sullivan.
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Germantown Unitarian Church (1866-67, demolished ca. 1928)
Provident Life & Trust Company in Philadelphia (1879, demolished 1959-60)
National Bank of the Republic, later renamed Philadelphia Clearing House, in Philadelphia (1883-84, demolished)
24th Street Station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Philadelphia (1886-88, demolished 1963)
Horace Howard Furness Desk (1870-1871), Frank Furness and Daniel Pabst, now on display at the Philadelphia Museum of ArtAwards 1
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Frank Heyling Furness was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often inordinately scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago-based architect Louis Sullivan. Furness also received a Medal of Honor for bravery during the Civil War. He worked with custom furniture maker Daniel Pabst.
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