Book ID: CBB664016347

Frank Furness: Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines (2018)

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George E. Thomas (Author)


University of Pennsylvania Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 281 pp.
Language: English

Frank Furness was born in Philadelphia in 1839. He was educated at private schools in the city, but never attended a college or university. Instead in 1857 he was apprenticed to architect John Fraser. Two years later he entered the New York studio of Richard Morris Hunt where he learned the eclectic medieval form which he would use throughout his career. When Furness returned to Philadelphia in 1866, he received his first commission for a new Germantown section of the Philadelphia. The following year, Furness entered into his first architectural partnership, joining established architects John Fraser, his former mentor, and George Hewitt. During the early 1870's this team designed the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.from 1875 on, Furness moved away from European revival styles, looking instead to the American West and to the American industrial age as inspirations for his dynamic and original buildings. He found an appreciative audience in industrial Philadelphia. By the time of his fiftieth birthday in 1889, Furness had designed more than three hundred buildings in Philadelphia, including a number of major city landmarks. During his career he designed numerous stations for the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads, as well as banks, residences, office buildings, and churches. (from OCLC)

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Authors & Contributors
Adams, Frank P.
Sundman, Jim
Shaw, Michael Stefan
Joy M. Giguere
Sonia Hirt
Hofmann, Martin
Concepts
Architecture
Railroads
Land transportation
Biographies
Historic buildings
Pictorial works
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Philadelphia, PA
Union County, PA
China
Institutions
Strasburg Railroad
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation
Pennsylvania Railroad
American Philosophical Society
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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