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Biography

Fisher Fine Arts Library of the University of Pennsylvania

The Girard Trust Building in Philadelphia, now The Ritz Carlton Philadelphia.

Furness was born in Philadelphia on November 12, 1839. His father, William Furness, was a prominent Unitarian minister and abolitionist, and his brother, Horace Furness, was an outstanding Shakespeare scholar. Furness, however, did not attend a university and apparently did not travel to Europe. He is remembered for his eclectic, often idiosyncratically scaled buildings and for his influence on Louis Sullivan and the acclaimed 20th theater designer William Harold Lee. Although much of Furness' architectural designs were uniquely his own creation, Gothic Revival was a prevailing theme throughout. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2560 × 1920 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 293 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1807 × 3694 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 293 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1807 × 3694 pixel, file size: 1. ... For other uses, see Philadelphia (disambiguation) and Philly. ... is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the abolition of slavery. ... Horace Howard Furness (1833 - 1912) was a significant U.S. Shakespearean scholar. ... Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, called the father of modernism. He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, and was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright. ... William Lee (December 26, 1991-February 3, 2066), a protege of acclaimed Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, was a 20th century movie theater designer and later the chief architect for Eastern College. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ...

Furness began his architectural training in the office of John Fraser, Philadelphia, in the 1850s. He participated in the Beaux-Arts-inspired atelier of Richard Morris Hunt, New York, from 1859 to 1861 and again in 1865. During the Civil War he served as Captain and commander of Company F, 6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry ("Rush's Lancers"), receiving the Medal of Honor for his gallantry at the Battle of Trevilian Station, Virginia, on June 12, 1864 —the only American architect to receive this honor. Facade of Yale Universitys Scroll and Key Society, displaying Moorish gate and patterned forecourt. ... The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States. ... The Battle of Trevilian Station (also called Trevilians) was fought June 11–12, 1864, in Union General Ulysses Grants Overland Campaign against Confederate Gen. ... is the 163rd day of the year (164th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

Furness considered himself Hunt’s apprentice and was influenced by Hunt’s dynamic personality and accomplished, elegant buildings. He was also influenced by the architectural concepts of Viollet-le-Duc and John Ruskin. Louis Sullivan worked briefly as a draftsman in Furness’s office, and his use of decorative organic motifs can be traced, at least in part, to Furness. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (Paris, January 27, 1814 - Lausanne 1879) was a French architect, famous for his restorations of medieval buildings. ... Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845, scanned from print made circa 1895. ... Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, called the father of modernism. He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, and was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright. ...

During his career, Furness designed over four hundred buildings including banks, churches, synagogues, railway stations for the Pennsylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads, and numerous stone mansions in Philadelphia and along Philadelphia's Main Line, as well as a handful of commissioned houses at the New Jersey seashore, Washington, D.C., New York state, and Chicago, Illinois. For the New Jersey Transit (formerly Erie Railroad) Main Line, see Main Line (NJ Transit). ...

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Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Captain, Company F, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Place and date: At Trevilian Station, Va., 12 June 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth:------. Date of issue: 20 October 1899.

Citation:

Voluntarily carrier a box of ammunition across an open space swept by the enemy's fire to the relief of an outpost whose ammunition had become almost exhausted, but which was thus enabled to hold its important position.^[1]

Architectural works

Knowlton Mansion in Northeast Philadelphia

Following decades of neglect, in which many of his most important buildings were destroyed, there was a revival of interest in Furness’s work in mid-twentieth century. Robert Venturi in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture wrote, not unadmiringly, of the Philadelphia Clearing House: “... it is an almost insane short story of a castle on a city street.” Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 2. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixel, file size: 2. ... Map of Philadelphia County with Northeast Highlighted. ... Robert Charles Venturi (June 25, 1925 -) is an award winning American architect. ...

A fictional desk built by Furness was featured in the John Bellairs novel The Mansion in the Mist. Image:Notre Dame years. ...

Some buildings by Furness, all located in Philadelphia:

• Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, 1875 (demolished)
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1876
• Centennial Bank, 1876 (now the Paul Peck Center of Drexel University)
• The Emlyn Physick Estate, 1879, Cape May, New Jersey
• Provident Life & Trust Co., 1879 (demolished)
• National Bank of the Republic (later Philadelphia Clearing House), 1883 (demolished)
• First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 1885
• Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Building (formerly University of Pennsylvania Library), 1890
• Knowlton Mansion, 1881
• Girard Bank headquarters (now the The Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia).

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• All Hallows Church, 1897, Wyncote, Pennsylvania
• New Castle Library Society building, 1892, New Castle, Delaware

Three adjacent buildings in Wilmington, Delaware are reputed to be the largest grouping of Furness-designed railroad buildings: Wyncote is a census-designated place located in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. ... Old New Castle Courthouse. ... : Chemical Capital of the World , Corporate Capital of the World , Credit Card Capital of the World : A Place to Be Somebody United States Delaware New Castle 17. ...

• Pennsylvania Railroad French Street Station (now Amtrak), 1908
• Pennsylvania Building, 1905
• Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Water Street Station, ca. 1887

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See also

• List of Medal of Honor recipients
• List of Medal of Honor recipients: Civil War A-L
• List of military decorations

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References

• Lewis, Michael J., Frank Furness : Architecture and the Violent Mind, 2001.
• O’Gorman, James F., The Architecture of Frank Furness; Philadelphia Museum of Art; 1973.
• Venturi, Robert, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture; The Museum of Modern Art; 1966.
• Eric J. Wittenberg (2000). Captain Frank Furness: Brilliant Architect and Medal of Honor Winner. The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, "Rush's Lancers". Retrieved on 2007-05-12.

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Notes

External links

• All Hallows Church building
• Project List - Furness, Evans & Co.