Editing Frank Furness

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{{Short description|American architect (1839–1912)}}
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|birth_date= {{Birth date|1839|11|12}}
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1912|06|27|1839|11|12}}
|image= FrankFurness.jpg
|caption= Furness in 1901
|birth_place= [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S.
|death_place= [[Upper Providence Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Upper Providence Township, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
|placeofburial= [[Laurel Hill Cemetery]]<br>[[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S.
|placeofburial_label= Place of burial
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|branch= [[United States Army]]<br>[[Union Army]]
|rank=[[Captain (United States)|Captain]]
|serviceyears=1861–1864
|unit=[[6th Pennsylvania Cavalry]]
|battles='''[[American Civil War]]'''<br>[[Battle of Brandy Station]]<br>[[Battle of Gettysburg]]<br>[[Battle of Trevilian Station]]
|awards=[[Medal of Honor]]
|laterwork= Architect
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'''Frank Heyling Furness''' (November 12, 1839 – June 27, 1912) 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 [[American Civil War|Civil War]].

Toward the end of his life, his bold style fell out of fashion, and many of his significant works were demolished in the 20th century. Among his most important surviving buildings are the [[University of Pennsylvania]] Library, now the [[Fisher Fine Arts Library]], the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]], and the [[First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia]], all in [[Philadelphia]], and the [[Baldwin School]] Residence Hall in [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania|Bryn Mawr]].

==Early life and education==
Furness was born in [[Philadelphia]] on November 12, 1839. His father, [[William Henry Furness]], was a prominent [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] minister and [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionist]], and his brother, [[Horace Howard Furness]], became America's outstanding Shakespeare scholar.  Frank, however, did not attend a university and apparently did not travel to Europe. He began his architectural training in the office of [[John Fraser (architect)|John Fraser]], Philadelphia, in the 1850s.  He attended the {{Lang|fr|[[École des Beaux-Arts]]|italic=no}}-inspired atelier of [[Richard Morris Hunt]] in [[New York City]], from 1859 to 1861, and again in 1865, following his military service. 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 the French engineer [[Viollet-le-Duc]] and the British critic [[John Ruskin]].

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==Career==
[[File:Unitarian Church at Germantown, Philadelphia, by Newell, R., d. 1897 lhs.jpg|thumb|Germantown Unitarian Church (1866–67, demolished ca. 1928)]]
[[File:ProvidentTrust.jpg|thumb|[[Provident Life & Trust Company]] in [[Philadelphia]] (1879, demolished 1959–60)]]
[[File:Furness National Bank of the Republic.jpg|thumb|National Bank of the Republic, later renamed Philadelphia Clearing House, in Philadelphia (1883–84, demolished)]]
[[File:B&OPassengerStationPhiladelphia.jpg|thumb|[[24th Street Station (Philadelphia)|24th Street Station]] on the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] in Philadelphia (1886–88, demolished 1963)]]
Furness's first commission, Germantown Unitarian Church (1866–67, demolished ca. 1928), was a solo effort, but in 1867, he formed a partnership with Fraser, his former teacher, and George Hewitt, who had worked in the office of [[John Notman]]. The trio lasted less than five years, and its major commissions were [[Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia)|Rodef Shalom Synagogue]] (1868–69, demolished) and the Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion (1870–75, demolished). In 1897, Furness designed an addition to the [[Philadelphia Savings Fund Society]] (PSFS) 1869 building which has now been incorporated into [[the St. James]], a high-rise luxury apartment complex in the city’s [[Washington Square West, Philadelphia|Washington Square]] neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web |title=Philadelphia to Get Its Tallest Apartment Building - NYTimes.com | website=[[The New York Times]] |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/realestate/17FOC.html?pagewanted=1 |date=4 March 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212125/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/realestate/17FOC.html?pagewanted=1 | archive-date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref>

Following Fraser's move to [[Washington, D.C.]], to become supervising architect for the [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Treasury Department]], the two younger men formed a partnership in 1871, and soon won the design competition for the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] (1871–76). [[Louis Sullivan]] worked briefly as a draftsman for Furness & Hewitt (June – November 1873),{{efn|Frank Furness was a curious character. He affected the English in fashion. He wore loud plaids, and a scowl, and from his face depended fan-like a marvelous red beard, beautiful in tone with each separate hair delicately crinkled from beginning to end. Moreover, his face was snarled and homely as an English bulldog's. Louis's eyes were riveted, in infatuation, to this beard, as he listened to a string of oaths a yard long. For it seemed that after he had delivered his initial fiat [of asking for a job], Furness looked at him half blankly, half enraged, as at another kind of dog that had slipped in through the door. His first question had been to Louis's experience, to which Louis replied, modestly enough, that he had just come from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. This answer was the detonator that set off the mine which blew up in fragments all schools in the land and scattered the professors headless and limbless to the four quarters of earth and hell. Louis, he said, was a fool. He said Louis was an idiot to have wasted his time in a place where one was filled with sawdust, like a doll, and became a prig, a snob, and an ass.

As the smoke blew away, he said: "Of course you don't know anything and are full of damnable conceit." Louis agreed to the ignorance; demurred as to conceit; and added that he belonged to that rare class who were capable of learning, and desired to learn. This answer mollified the dog-man, and he seemed intrigued that Louis stared at him so pertinaciously.

"Of course, you don't want any pay," he said. To which Louis replied that ten dollars a week would be a necessary honorarium. "All right," said he of the glorious beard, with something scraggy on his face, that might have been a smile. "Come tomorrow morning for a trial, but I prophesy you won't outlast a week." So Louis came. At the end of that week Furness said, "You may stay another week," and at the end of that week Furness said, "You may stay as long as you like." Furness "made buildings out of his head." ... And Furness as a freehand draftsman was extraordinary. He had Louis hypnotized, especially when he drew and swore at the same time.<ref>Louis Sullivan, ''The Autobiography of an Idea'' (New York: Press of the American Institute of Architects, 1922), pp. 191–93.</ref> &mdash; Louis Sullivan, ''The Autobiography of an Idea'' (1922).}} and his later use of organic decorative motifs can be traced, at least in part, to Furness. By the beginning of 1876, Furness had broken with Hewitt, and the firm carried only his name.  Hewitt and his brother William formed their own firm, [[G.W. & W.D. Hewitt]], and became Furness's biggest competitor. In 1881, Furness promoted his chief draftsman, [[Allen Evans]], to partner (Furness & Evans); and, in 1886, did the same for four other long-time employees.<ref>James F. O'Gorman, George E. Thomas & Hyman Myers, ''The Architecture of Frank Furness'' (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1973), pp. 200–03.</ref> The firm continued under the name Furness, Evans & Company as late as 1932, two decades after its founder's death.<ref name=":Lewis">Michael J. Lewis, ''Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind'' (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2001).</ref>{{rp|251}}

Furness was one of the most highly paid architects of his era, and a founder of the Philadelphia Chapter of the [[American Institute of Architects]]. Over his 45-year career, he designed more than 600 buildings, including banks, office buildings, churches, and synagogues. Nearly one-third of his commissions came from railroad companies. As chief architect of the [[Reading Company|Reading Railroad]], he designed about 130 stations and industrial buildings. For the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], he designed more than 20 structures, including the great [[Broad Street Station (Philadelphia)|Broad Street Station]] (demolished 1953) at Broad and Market Streets in Philadelphia. His 40 stations for the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] included the ingenious [[24th Street Station (Philadelphia)|24th Street Station]] (demolished 1963) beside the Chestnut Street Bridge. His residential buildings included numerous mansions in Philadelphia and its suburbs, especially the [[Philadelphia Main Line]] and commissioned houses at the [[New Jersey Shore]], and in [[Newport, Rhode Island]], [[Bar Harbor, Maine]], [[Washington, D.C.]]; [[New York (state)|New York state]], and [[Chicago]].

Furness broke from dogmatic adherence to European trends, and juxtaposed styles and elements in a forceful manner. His strong architectural will is seen in the unorthodox way he combined materials: stone, iron, glass, [[terra cotta]], and brick. And his straightforward use of these materials, often in innovative or technologically advanced ways, reflected Philadelphia's industrial-realist culture of the post–Civil War period.

===Interior design and furniture===
[[File:Desk, designed by Frank Furness, 1870-71, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|Horace Howard Furness Desk (1870–1871), Frank Furness and Daniel Pabst, now on display at the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]]]
[[File:RooseveltDiningroom.jpg|thumb|Dining room of the [[Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.]] townhouse in [[New York City]] (1873, demolished); Furness designed the furniture and woodwork and their manufacture is attributed to [[Daniel Pabst]].]]
Furness designed custom furniture for a number of his early residences and buildings. One notable commission was the 1870–1871 redesign of the interiors of elder brother Horace Howard Furness's city house, at the southwest corner of 7th and [[Locust Street]]s in [[Philadelphia]]. Work on Horace's library included elaborate Neo-Grec bookcases, a [[reliquary]] for a (supposed) death mask of [[William Shakespeare]], and a Neo-Grec desk, now at the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]. These pieces can be documented by drawings in Furness's sketchbooks and a letter in HHF's papers: ''"These bookcases were placed in position this day—February 18th 1871. They were designed by Capt. Frank Furness, and made by [[Daniel Pabst]] …"''<ref>Quoted in David Hanks, "Daniel Pabst," ''Nineteenth Century Furniture: Innovation, Revival, and Reform'' (New York: Art & Antiques, 1982), p. 43.</ref>

In 1873, Furness designed interiors and furniture for the Manhattan city house of [[Theodore Roosevelt, Sr.]], father of the future president. Although the house was demolished, Furness/Pabst furniture from it survives at [[Sagamore Hill]], the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], and the [[High Museum of Art]], in [[Atlanta]].<ref>[http://www.high.org/Art/Permanent-Collection/CollectionDetails.aspx?deptName=Decorative%20Arts%20and%20Design&objNum=1983.198&pageNumber=1#.VJOZBqc4 Roosevelt dining table] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030059/http://www.high.org/Art/Permanent-Collection/CollectionDetails.aspx?deptName=Decorative%20Arts%20and%20Design&objNum=1983.198&pageNumber=1#.VJOZBqc4 |date=September 24, 2015 }}, from High Museum of Art.</ref>

Furness designed bookcases and a suite of table and armchairs for the boardroom of the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia]], along with the lectern for its auditorium.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|161}} Manufacture of these is attributed to Pabst. A, {{circa|1875–1876}} A Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts boardroom armchair is in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], in London.<ref>[https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O59243/armchair/ PAFA armchair], from Victoria and Albert Museum.</ref>

===Military service===
During the [[American Civil War]], Furness served as captain and commander of Company F, [[6th Pennsylvania Cavalry|6th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry]], also known as "Rush's Lancers". He received the [[Medal of Honor]] for his gallantry at the [[Battle of Trevilian Station]].

===Medal of Honor citation===
Rank and organization: Captain, Company F, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Place and date: At Trevilian Station, Virginia, June 12, 1864. Entered service at: Philadelphia, Pa. Birth:------. Date of issue: October 20, 1899.
 
'''Citation:'''
<blockquote>The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Captain (Cavalry) Frank Furness, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 12 June 1864, while serving with Company F, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, in action at Trevilian Station, Virginia. Captain Furness voluntarily carried 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.<ref name="Hall of Valor">{{cite web |title=Frank Furness – Recipient |url=https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/892 |website=The Hall of Valor Project |publisher=Sightline Media Group |access-date=9 August 2020 |ref=Hall of Valor}}</ref><ref name=Wittenberg>Wittenberg, 2000.</ref></blockquote>

===Gettysburg monument===
[[File:6th PA Cavalry p820.jpg|thumb|The 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument at [[Gettysburg Battlefield]] in [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]] (1888)]]
Twenty-five years after fighting in the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], he designed the monument to his regiment on South Cavalry Field:

<blockquote>In design it is a simple granite block, as massive as a [[dolmen]], but surrounded by a corona of bronze lances that are models of the original lances. ... ''[T]''hey are depicted in a resting position, as if waiting to be seized at any instant and brought into battle. The sense of suspended action before the moment of the battle is all the more potent because it is rendered in stone and metal, making it perpetual. Of the hundreds of monuments at Gettysburg, Furness's is among the most haunting.<ref name=":Lewis"/>{{rp|44}}</blockquote>

==Personal life==
Furness married Fanny Fassit in 1866, and they had four children: Radclyffe, Theodore, James, and Annis Lee. His brother-in-law, James Wilson Fassitt Jr. (1850–1892), became an architect in Furness's firm, and was promoted to partner in 1886.<ref name=":0" />{{rp|86}}

==Death==
[[File:Frank Furness tombstone.jpg|thumb|Furness' tombstone in [[Laurel Hill Cemetery]] in [[Philadelphia]]]]
Furness died on June 27, 1912, in [[Idlewild (Media, Pennsylvania)|Idlewild, Pennsylvania]], at his summer house outside [[Media, Pennsylvania]], and was buried at [[Laurel Hill Cemetery]] in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Laurel Hill Cemetery (1836) |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/laurel-hill-cemetery/ |website=www.associationforpublicart.org |publisher=Association for Public Art |access-date=November 21, 2021}}</ref> He was 72.

==Rediscovery==
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Following decades of neglect, during which many of Furness's most important buildings were demolished, there was a revival of interest in his work in the mid-20th century. The critic [[Lewis Mumford]], tracing the creative forces that had influenced [[Louis Sullivan]] and [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], wrote in ''The Brown Decades'' (1931): "Frank Furness was the designer of a bold, unabashed, ugly, and yet somehow healthily pregnant architecture."<ref>Lewis Mumford, ''The Brown Decades: A Study of Arts in America 1865–1895'' (New York: 1931), p. 144.</ref>

The architectural historian [[Henry-Russell Hitchcock]], in his comprehensive survey ''Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' (revised 1963), saw beauty in that ugliness:

{{blockquote|[O]f the highest quality, is the intensely personal work of Frank Furness (1839–1912) in Philadelphia. His building for the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in Broad Street was erected in 1872–76 in preparation for the Centennial Exposition. The exterior has a largeness of scale and a vigor in the detailing that would be notable anywhere, and the galleries are top-lit with exceptional efficiency. Still more original and impressive were his banks, even though they lay quite off the main line of development of commercial architecture in this period. The most extraordinary of these, and Furness's masterpiece, was the [[Provident Life & Trust Company|Provident Institution]] in Walnut [''sic'' Chestnut] Street, built as late as 1879. This was most unfortunately demolished in the Philadelphia urban renewal campaign several years ago, but the gigantic and forceful scale of the granite membering alone should have justified its respectful preservation.

No small part of Furness's historical significance lies in the fact that the young [[Louis Sullivan]] picked this office – then known as Furness & Hewitt – to work in for a short period after he left Ware's School in Boston. As Sullivan's ''Autobiography of an Idea'' testifies, the vitality and originality of Furness meant more to him than what he was taught at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], or later at the [[École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts|Ecole des Beaux-Arts]] in Paris.<ref>Henry-Russell Hitchcock, ''Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1958, revised 1963), pp. 194–95.</ref>}}

Architect and critic [[Robert Venturi]] in ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' (1966) wrote, not unadmiringly, of the National Bank of the Republic, later renamed the Philadelphia Clearing House:

<blockquote>The city street facade can provide a type of juxtaposed contradiction that is essentially two-dimensional. Frank Furness' Clearing House, now demolished like many of his best works in Philadelphia, contained an array of violent pressures within a rigid frame. The half-segmental arch, blocked by the submerged tower which, in turn, bisects the facade into a near duality, and the violent adjacencies of rectangles, squares, lunettes, and diagonals of contrasting sizes, compose a building seemingly held up by the buildings next door: it is an almost insane short story of a castle on a city street.<ref>Robert Venturi, ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' (New York: Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture, 1966), pp. 56–57.</ref></blockquote>

On the occasion of its centennial in 1969, the Philadelphia Chapter of the [[American Institute of Architects]] memorialized Furness as its 'great architect of the past':

<blockquote>For designing original and bold buildings free of the prevalent Victorian academicism and imitation, buildings of such vigor that the flood of classical traditionalism could not overwhelm them, or him, or his clients ...

For shaping iron and concrete with a sensitive understanding of their particular characteristics that was unique for his time ...

For his significance as innovator-architect along with his contemporaries [[John Root]], [[Louis Sullivan]] and [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] ...

For his masterworks, the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]], the [[Provident Life & Trust Company|Provident Trust Company]], the [[24th Street Station (Philadelphia)|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station]], and the [[Fisher Fine Arts Library|University of Pennsylvania Library]] (now renamed the Furness Building) ...

For his outstanding abilities as draftsman, teacher and inventor ...

For being a founder of the Philadelphia Chapter and of the John Stewardson Memorial Scholarship in Architecture ...

And above all, for creating architecture of imagination, decisive self-reliance, courage, and often great beauty, an architecture which to our eyes and spirits still expresses the unusual personal character, spirit and courage for which he was awarded the Congressional [[Medal of Honor]] for bravery on a Civil War battlefield.<ref>[[Louis I. Kahn]] was saluted as the Chapter's great architect of the present. ''AIA 100: Centennial Yearbook'' (Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1970), pp. 12–13.</ref></blockquote>

==Legacy==
[[File:HHFCabinetDoors.jpg|thumb|Cabinet doors from the Horace Howard Furness Library (1870–1871), Frank Furness and Daniel Pabst, private collection]]
Furness designed custom interiors and furniture in collaboration with Philadelphia cabinetmaker [[Daniel Pabst]]. Examples are in the collections of the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]];<ref>[http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/69517.html?mulR=22645|1 Modern Gothic desk], from Philadelphia Museum of Art.</ref><ref>[http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/69519.html?mulR=17759|2 Modern Gothic chair], from Philadelphia Museum of Art.</ref> the University of Pennsylvania;<ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/curator/0000-2185.html Furness-Pabst bookcase] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224053113/http://www.upenn.edu/curator/0000-2185.html |date=December 24, 2014 }}, from University of Pennsylvania.</ref> the [[High Museum of Art]] in Atlanta, Georgia;<ref>[http://www.high.org/Art/Permanent-Collection/CollectionDetails.aspx?deptName=Decorative%20Arts%20and%20Design&objNum=1983.198&pageNumber=1#.VJOZBqc4 Roosevelt dining table] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030059/http://www.high.org/Art/Permanent-Collection/CollectionDetails.aspx?deptName=Decorative%20Arts%20and%20Design&objNum=1983.198&pageNumber=1 |date=September 24, 2015 }}, from High Museum of Art.</ref> the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] in London,<ref>[https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O59243/armchair-furness-frank/ Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts armchair], from Victoria and Albert Museum.</ref> and elsewhere. [[Mark-Lee Kirk]]'s set designs for the 1942 [[Orson Welles]] film ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons (film)|The Magnificent Ambersons]]'' seem to be based on Furness's ornate Neo-Grec interiors of the 1870s.<ref name=":Lewis"/>{{rp|108}} A fictional desk designed by Furness is featured in the [[John Bellairs]] novel ''The Mansion in the Mist''.

Furness's independence and modernist Victorian-Gothic style inspired 20th-century architects [[Louis Kahn]] and [[Robert Venturi]]. Living in Philadelphia and teaching at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], they often visited Furness's [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] — built for the 1876 Centennial — and his [[Fisher Fine Arts Library|University of Pennsylvania Library]].

In 1973, the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] mounted the first retrospective of Furness's work, curated by [[James F. O'Gorman]], George E. Thomas and Hyman Myers. Thomas, Jeffrey A. Cohen and Michael J. Lewis authored ''Frank Furness: The Complete Works'' (1991, revised 1996), with an introduction by [[Robert Venturi]]. Lewis wrote the first biography: ''Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind'' (2001).

The 2012 centenary of Furness's death was observed with exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, the [[Library Company of Philadelphia]], the [[Athenaeum of Philadelphia]], the [[Delaware Historical Society]], the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, and elsewhere.<ref>[http://frankfurness.org/ Furness schedule of events]</ref> On September 14, a Pennsylvania state historical marker was dedicated in front of Furness's boyhood home at 1426 Pine Street, Philadelphia (now [[Peirce College]] Alumni Hall). Opposite the marker is Furness's 1874–75 dormitory addition to the Pennsylvania Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, now the Furness Residence Hall of the [[University of the Arts (Philadelphia)|University of the Arts]].<ref>[http://www.uarts.edu/students/furness-residence-hall Furness Residence Hall]</ref>

==Selected architectural works==
[[File:Philadelphia-broadst-138288pv-bis.jpg|thumb|[[Broad Street Station (Philadelphia)|Broad Street Station]] (1892–93, demolished 1953). When it opened in 1893, this was the world's largest passenger railroad terminal.]]
[[File:ChineseWall.jpg|thumb|The "Chinese Wall", the station's stone viaduct, carried the PRR tracks 10 blocks from Broad Street to the Schuylkill River.]]
===Philadelphia buildings===
*Northern Savings Fund Society Building, 1871–72, with George Hewitt.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa1000/pa1027/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Northern%20Saving%20Fund,%20Safe%20Deposit%20%26%20Trust%20Company,%20600%20Spring%20Garden%20Street,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:17:./temp/~ammem_csrD:: Northern Savings Fund Society Building] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*[[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]], Broad & Cherry Streets, 1871–76, with George Hewitt.
*Parish House, [[Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany (Philadelphia)|Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany]], 330 South 13th Street, c. 1875, with George Hewitt.
*[[Thomas Hockley House]], 21st & St. James Streets, 1875.
*Gatehouses, [[Philadelphia Zoological Gardens]], 1875–76.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/image_gallery.cfm?RecordId=1F291A56-D320-4B27-AF31A221B05EF800 Philadelphia Zoo Gatehouses] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</ref>
*[[Centennial National Bank]], 33rd & Market Streets, 1876. Now Paul Peck Alumni Center, [[Drexel University]].
*Kensington National Bank, Girard & Frankford Aves., 1877 (Now a branch of Wells Fargo).<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa0900/pa0955/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Kensington%20National%20Bank,%202-8%20West%20Girard%20Avenue,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:24:./temp/~ammem_S0uz:: Kensington National Bank] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*[[St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Philadelphia)|St. Stephen's Episcopal Church]] transept and vestry room, 19 S 10th Street, 1879.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display_projects.cfm#Projects|title=Frank Furness (1839–1912)|website=Philadelphia Buildings|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020126154005/http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display_projects.cfm#Projects|archive-date=January 26, 2002|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Knowlton Mansion|Knowlton]] (William H. Rhawn mansion), Rhawn Street & Verree Road, 1881.
*[[Gravers (SEPTA station)|Gravers Lane Station]], 200 E Gravers Lane, Chestnut Hill, 1882.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Frank Furness: The Complete Works, Revised Edition|last=Thomas|first=George E.|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|year=1996|isbn=1-56898-094-9|pages=218, 224, 334, 336|display-authors=etal}}</ref> [[Reading Company|Philadelphia & Reading Company]] 
*[[Mount Airy (SEPTA station)|Mount Airy Station]], E Gowen Ave & Devon St, Mount Airy, 1882.<ref name=":0" /> [[Reading Company|Philadelphia & Reading Company]] 
*[[Undine Barge Club]], #13 [[Boathouse Row]], 1882–83.<ref>[http://www.undine.com/home.php Undine Barge Club] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630054337/http://www.undine.com/home.php |date=June 30, 2009 }}</ref>
*[[First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia]], 2125 Chestnut Street, 1885.
*[[Fisher Fine Arts Library|University of Pennsylvania Library]], 34th Street, 1891. Now the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library.
*Mortuary Chapel, Mount Sinai Cemetery (Frankford), 1891–92.
*[[Horace Jayne House]], 19th & Delancey Streets, 1895.<ref>[http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dfrank%2Bfurness%2Bphiladelphia%26ni%3D20%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dyfp-t-105%26xargs%3D0%26pstart%3D1%26b%3D101&w=500&h=369&imgurl=static.flickr.com%2F31%2F54178154_46654dcfab.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fbsgalio%2F54178154%2F&size=175kB&name=1900+Delancey+Place&p=frank+furness+philadelphia&type=JPG&oid=79ef597eaf17bcb6&fusr=nathan_explosion&tit=1900+Delancey+Place&hurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fbsgalio%2F&no=104&tt=130&sigr=11ecgk97o&sigi=11cuoph00&sigb=13sk394qf&sigh=115onapgj Horace Jayne house] from Flickr</ref>
*Girard Trust Bank, Broad & Chestnut Streets, 1907 (now [[The Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia]]) constructed for the [[Girard Trust Company]].<ref>The concept for this building was Furness's, but it was designed by his partner, Allen Evans, along with the New York firm of [[McKim, Mead and White]]. George E. Thomas, Jeffrey A. Cohen & Michael J. Lewis, ''Frank Furness: The Complete Works'' (Princeton Architectural Press, revised edition 1996), pp. 338–39.</ref><ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa0700/pa0735/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Girard%20Trust%20Corn%20Exchange%20Bank,%2034-36%20South%20Broad%20Street,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:2:./temp/~ammem_rXng:: Girard Trust Company] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*Henry's home,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://horshamhistory.org/history/people/henry-pratt-mckean|title=Henry Pratt McKean|last=Winters|first=Kevin|date=January 1, 1900|website=horshamhistory.org|access-date=December 19, 2019}}</ref> sole surviving building of the demolished Thomas and H. Pratt McKean townhouses, 1923 Walnut St., 1869.
*[[Wayne Junction station]], 4481 Wayne Avenue.

===Demolished Philadelphia buildings===
*Germantown Unitarian Church, 1866–67<ref>[http://usg.livesitehost.com/pages/history Unitarian Society of Germantown] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222141258/http://usg.livesitehost.com/pages/history |date=December 22, 2008 }}</ref>
*Rodef Shalom Synagogue, 1868–69.<ref>[http://www.nmajh.org/exhibitions/postcards/cards/48.htm Rodef Shalom] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080325115426/http://www.nmajh.org/exhibitions/postcards/cards/48.htm |date=March 25, 2008 }} at National Museum of American Jewish History.</ref>
*Thomas and H. Pratt McKean townhouses, 1923–25 Walnut St., 1869, demolished 1897 and 1920s.
*Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion, 1870–75.<ref>[http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/uphp/AABN/lutheran/lutheran.html Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307230506/http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/uphp/AABN/lutheran/lutheran.html |date=March 7, 2008 }} at Bryn Mawr College.</ref>
*Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, 1875.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/image_gallery.cfm?RecordId=0B08DB0C-9B25-4665-A7E1C6303C6B18B0 Guarantee Trust Company] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</ref>
*Brazilian Section, Main Exhibition Building, [[Centennial Exposition]] (1876).
*Church of the Redeemer for Seamen and their Families, 1878.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa1100/pa1160/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Church%20of%20the%20Redeemer,%20101-107%20Queen%20Street,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:4:./temp/~ammem_7pvA:: Seamen's Church of the Redeemer] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*[[Provident Life & Trust Company]], 1879.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa0700/pa0767/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Provident%20Life%20%26%20Trust%20Company%20Bank,%20407-409%20Chestnut%20Street,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:25:./temp/~ammem_sLwf:: Provident Life & Trust Co.] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*Library Company of Philadelphia Building, 1879–80.<ref>[http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/washw/images/D/D4.jpg Library Company of Philadelphia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110120753/http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/washw/images/D/D4.jpg |date=November 10, 2008 }} at Bryn Mawr College.</ref>
*[[Reliance Insurance Company]] Building, 1881–82.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa0700/pa0777/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Reliance%20Insurance%20Company%20of%20Philadelphia,%20429%20Walnut%20Street,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:16:./temp/~ammem_csrD:: Reliance Insurance Company Building] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*National Bank of the Republic (later Philadelphia Clearing House), 1883–84.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/17361 National Bank of the Republic] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</ref>
*[[24th Street Station (Philadelphia)|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station (24th Street Station)]], 1886–88.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa1000/pa1097/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Baltimore%20%26%20Ohio%20Railroad%20Station,%20Twenty-fourth%20%26%20Chestnut%20Streets,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:1:./temp/~ammem_0ixX:: Baltimore and Ohio Terminal] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*The Cottage at the [[Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital]], c 1888
*Franklin Sugar Refinery, 125 S 12th Street, c. 1895.
*[[Alexander J. Cassatt]] townhouse, 202 West Rittenhouse Square, c. 1888.
*[[Broad Street Station (Philadelphia)|Broad Street Station]], [[Pennsylvania Railroad]], 1892–93.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa1000/pa1046/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Pennsylvania%20Railroad%20Station,%20Broad%20Street%20Station,%20Broad%20%26%20Market%20Streets,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:1:./temp/~ammem_H8xs:: Broad Street Station] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*Arcade Building and pedestrian bridge to Broad Street Station, 1901–02.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa1000/pa1083/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Arcade%20Building,%20Fifteenth%20%26%20Market%20Streets,%20Philadelphia,%20Philadelphia%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:1:./temp/~ammem_fh7O:: Arcade Building] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>

===Buildings elsewhere===
[[File:Emlen-physick-estate.jpg|thumb|[[Emlen Physick Estate|Emlen Physick house]] in [[Cape May, New Jersey]] (1879), now Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC)]]
==== Railroad stations ====
* Manheim Station, [[Manheim, Pennsylvania]], 1881, [[Reading Company|Philadelphia & Reading Company]].<ref name=":0" />
*East Strasburg Station, [[Petersburg, Pennsylvania]], 1882, [[Reading Company|Philadelphia & Reading Company]], moved to [[Strasburg Rail Road|Strasburg Railroad]].
*Sunbury Station, [[Sunbury, Pennsylvania]], 1883, [[Reading Company|Philadelphia & Reading Company]].<ref name=":0" />
*[[Aberdeen station (Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)|Aberdeen Station]], [[Aberdeen, Maryland]], 1885, [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]].
*[[Baltimore and Ohio Station (Pittsburgh)|B&O Station, Pittsburgh]], [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, 1887, demolished 1955, [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]].
*[[Lansdowne station (SEPTA)|Lansdowne Station]], [[Lansdowne, Pennsylvania]], 1901, [[Pennsylvania Railroad]].<ref name=":0" />
*Edgewood Station, [[Edgewood, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania|Edgewood, Pennsylvania]], 1903, [[Pennsylvania Railroad]].<ref name=":0" />
*Sherwood Station, [[Ruxton-Riderwood, Maryland|Riderwood, Maryland]], 1905, [[Northern Central Railway]].

=====Wilmington, Delaware=====
Three buildings in [[Wilmington, Delaware]], reputed to be the largest grouping of Furness-designed railroad buildings, form the [[Wilmington, Delaware#Points of interest|Frank Furness Railroad District]].
*[[Water Street Station]], [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]], ca. 1887.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/image_gallery.cfm?RecordId=9161D46B-8306-4822-AC504ECDA7A5C8B6 B&O Water Street Station] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</ref>
*[[Pennsylvania Railroad]] Building, 1905.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/12866 Pennsylvania Building] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</ref>
*[[Wilmington Station (Delaware)|French Street Station]] (Wilmington Station), [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] (now [[Amtrak]]), 1908.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/image_gallery.cfm?RecordId=380873B9-AF76-4C44-BDC4125306715EFD&ShowAll=9999 Wilmington Station] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</ref>

==== Residences ====
*Grubb Cottage (E. Burd Grubb Estate), [[Burlington, New Jersey]], 1872
*Lindenshade ([[Horace Howard Furness]] house), [[Wallingford, Pennsylvania]], 1873 (demolished 1940).<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:3:./temp/~ammem_n2KJ:: Lindenshade] at the Historic American Buildings Survey.</ref><ref>[http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/wh/sw/furh.jpg Lindenshade after 1885] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110093629/http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/wh/sw/furh.jpg |date=November 10, 2008 }} at Bryn Mawr College.</ref>
*Fairholme ([[Fairman Rogers]] mansion), [[Newport, Rhode Island]], 1874&ndash;1875. Its carriage house is now Jean and David W. Wallace Hall, [[Salve Regina University]].<ref>[http://hcap.artstor.org/cgi-bin/library?a=d&d=p1524 Jean and David W. Wallace Hall] at the Historic Campus Architecture Project</ref>
*George Fryer cottage, [[Cape May, New Jersey]], 1871–72; rebuilt after fire, 1878–79.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhdatapage&fileName=nj/nj0000/nj0021/data/hhdatapage.db&recNum=0&itemLink=D?hh:3:./temp/~pp_z1lq::@@@mdb=fsaall,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb,hec,krb Fryer's Cottage] at the Historic American Buildings Survey.</ref>
*[[Emlen Physick Estate|Emlen Physick house]], [[Cape May, New Jersey]], 1879.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=nj/nj0000/nj0034/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Emlen%20Physick%20House,%201048%20Washington%20Street,%20Cape%20May,%20Cape%20May%20County,%20NJ&displayType=1&itemLink=r?ammem/hh:@FIELD(DOCID+@BAND(@lit(NJ0034))) Emlen Physick Estate] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*[[Fairview (Delaware City, Delaware)|Fairview]], near [[Delaware City, Delaware]] (1880 alterations). Furness added a third story and rear wing to an 1822 farmhouse.
*[[Dolobran]] ([[Clement Griscom|Clement A. Griscom]] mansion), [[Haverford, Pennsylvania]], 1881, circa-1888, 1894.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa3000/pa3016/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Dolobran,%20231%20Laurel%20Lane,%20Haverford,%20Montgomery%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=r?ammem/hh:@FIELD(DOCID+@BAND(@lit(PA3016))) Dolobran] at the Historic American Buildings Survey</ref>
*[[Lotta Crabtree Cottage]], [[Mount Arlington, New Jersey]], 1885–86.
*[[Idlewild (Media, Pennsylvania)|Idlewild]] (Frank Furness house), Idlewild Lane, [[Media, Pennsylvania]] (c. 1888).
*Ragged Edge (Col. Moorhead Kennedy house), [[Chambersburg, Pennsylvania|Chambersburg]], Pennsylvania, 1900–1901.<ref>[http://www.theinnatraggededge.com/history.html History] from Inn at Ragged Edge.</ref>
*Judge Eugene G. Smith , [[Lancaster, Pennsylvania]]. 1890

==== Schools ====
*[[Williamson College of the Trades]] (formerly ''Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades''), [[Elwyn, Pennsylvania]], original campus buildings, completed in 1889–90.<ref>[http://www.williamson.edu/about/index.htm Williamson Free School Main Building] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509184138/http://www.williamson.edu/about/index.htm |date=May 9, 2008 }}</ref>
*[[The Baldwin School]] (built as the second Bryn Mawr Hotel), [[Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania]], 1890.<ref>[http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/king/k24cc.jpg The Baldwin School] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110075045/http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/king/k24cc.jpg |date=November 10, 2008 }} at Bryn Mawr College.</ref>
*Recitation Hall, [[University of Delaware]], [[Newark, Delaware]], 1891.<ref>[http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/image_gallery.cfm?RecordId=F2A42DF5-44F6-405B-9FB3FB33A6B8B350 Recitation Hall] from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings</ref>
*[[Haverford School]], [[Haverford, Pennsylvania]], 1902.<ref>[http://www.lowermerion.org/cgi-bin/hri3.plx?hrquery=HA052 Haverford School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613200836/http://lowermerion.org/cgi-bin/hri3.plx?hrquery=HA052 |date=June 13, 2010 }} from Township of Lower Merion</ref>

==== Churches ====
*All Hallows Church, [[Wyncote, Pennsylvania]], 1897.<ref>[http://www.allhallowswyncote.org/buildings.html All Hallows Church] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050531080915/http://www.allhallowswyncote.org/buildings.html |date=May 31, 2005 }}</ref>
*Church of Our Father, Hull's Cove, [[Mount Desert Island, Maine]], 1890–91.<ref>[http://home.gwi.net/~ourfather/ Church of Our Father] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204064707/http://home.gwi.net/~ourfather/ |date=December 4, 2008 }}</ref>
*[[St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)|St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church]], [[Birdsboro, Pennsylvania]], 1884–85.<ref>[http://www.design.upenn.edu/archives/majorcollections/furness/ff-stmich.html St. Michael's interior] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828212336/http://www.design.upenn.edu/archives/majorcollections/furness/ff-stmich.html |date=August 28, 2008 }} at Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania</ref>

==== Other ====
*New Castle Public Library, [[New Castle, Delaware]], 1892 (now Old Library Museum, New Castle Historical Society).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newcastlehistory.org/houses/library.html |title=New Castle Library |access-date=November 12, 2008 |archive-date=December 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227220333/http://www.newcastlehistory.org/houses/library.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry (Rush's Lancers) Monument, Gettysburg Battlefield, [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]], 1888.<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/goellnitz/2374226254/ 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry Monument] from Flickr</ref>
*[[Merion Cricket Club]], [[Haverford, Pennsylvania]] ([[Allen Evans]], Furness's partner, is credited with the design), 1896–97.<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=hhphoto&fileName=pa/pa2900/pa2990/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Merion%20Cricket%20Club,%20Montgomery%20Avenue%20%26%20Grays%20Lane,%20Haverford,%20Montgomery%20County,%20PA&displayType=1&itemLink=D?hh:1:./temp/~ammem_0ytZ:: Merion Cricket Club] at the Historic American Buildings Survey.</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="nolines" widths="200" perrow="8">
File:22nd & Walnut, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg|Thomas and H. Pratt McKean Townhouses, 1923-25 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1869, demolished 1897 and 1920s).
File:Lindenshade.jpg|Lindenshade ([[Horace Howard Furness]] house), Wallingford, Pennsylvania (c. 1873, demolished 1940). A country house built for the architect's brother, it was later greatly expanded.
File:HockleyHouse.jpg|Thomas Hockley house, 235 S. 21st St., Philadelphia (1875), Furness & Hewitt.
File:Philadelphia Zoo entrance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA-27June2010.jpg|Gatehouses, [[Philadelphia Zoo]], [[Fairmount Park]], Philadelphia (1875–76, altered), Furness & Hewitt.
File:WTP A03 dthomsen8 1.jpg|[[Centennial National Bank]], Philadelphia (1876), now Paul Peck Alumni Center, Drexel University.
File:Brazilian section, Main building, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views 2.jpg|Brazilian Section, Main Exhibition Building, [[Centennial Exposition]], Philadelphia (1876).
File:Cooks Villa 2 CMHD.JPG|J. F. Fryer cottage, [[Cape May, New Jersey]] (1878–79). The pierced-tile inserts in the railings are believed to have come from the Japanese Pavilion at the [[1876 Centennial Exposition]].
File:Knowlton.JPG|[[Knowlton Mansion|Knowlton]] (William H. Rhawn mansion), Northeast Philadelphia (1881).
File:Dolobran Montco PA 03.JPG|[[Dolobran]] ([[Clement Griscom|Clement A. Griscom]] mansion), Haverford, Pennsylvania (1881, circa 1888, 1894).
File:RelianceInsurance.jpg|Reliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia (1881–82, demolished 1960).
File:Undine2010.jpg|[[Undine Barge Club]], <br/>#13 [[Boathouse Row]], Philadelphia (1882–83).
File:First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Walnut Street.jpg|[[First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia]] (1886).
File:B&OStationFromEast.jpg|[[24th Street Station (Philadelphia)|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station]], Philadelphia (1886–88, demolished 1963), looking west from 24th Street.
File:B&OWaitingroomStair.jpg|[[24th Street Station (Philadelphia)|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station]], Philadelphia (1886–88, demolished 1963), stairs from Lower Waiting Room.
File:BO1911.JPG|[[Baltimore and Ohio Station (Pittsburgh)|Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station]], [[Pittsburgh]] (1887, demolished 1955).
File:Furness Idlewild.JPG|[[Idlewild (Media, Pennsylvania)|Idlewild]], [[Media, Pennsylvania]] (1888). Furness's own country house is reminiscent of his [[Fisher Fine Arts Library|University of Pennsylvania Library]].
File:CassattHouse.jpg|[[Alexander J. Cassatt]] townhouse, 202 West Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia (altered by Furness c. 1888, demolished 1972).
File:Jayne House Philly.JPG|[[Horace Jayne House]], 19th & Delancey Sts., Philadelphia (1895). The grandest of his surviving city houses, Mrs. Jayne was Furness's niece [[Caroline Furness Jayne|Caroline]].
File:MerionCricket.jpg|[[Merion Cricket Club]], Haverford, Pennsylvania (1896–97). Allen Evans was a founding member of the club, and probably designed all its buildings.
File:ArcadeBuilding.jpg|Arcade Building and pedestrian bridge to [[Broad Street Station (Philadelphia)|Broad Street Station]], Philadelphia (1901–02, demolished 1969).
File:GirardTrust.jpg|Girard Trust Company Building, Philadelphia (1907), (now [[The Ritz-Carlton Philadelphia]]). The concept for the bank was Furness's, but it was designed by Allen Evans and the New York firm of [[McKim, Mead and White]].
File:Williamson Free Trade School.JPG|[[Williamson College of the Trades|Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades]] campus (1890), (Rowan Hall shown) [[Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania|Middletown Township, Pennsylvania]].
File:Graver Lane SEPTA.JPG|Graver's Lane Station, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Philadelphia (1882).
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography|American Civil War|Philadelphia}}
*[[List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F#F|List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: A–F]]

==Notes==
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==References==
{{Reflist|3}}

==Sources==
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*Lewis, Michael J., ''Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind'', 2001.
*O'Gorman, James F., et al., ''The Architecture of Frank Furness''. Philadelphia Museum of Art; 1973.
*Thayer, Preston, ''The Railroad Designs of Frank Furness: Architecture and Corporate Imagery in the Late Nineteenth Century'', University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Ph.D. dissertation), 1993.
*Thomas, George E., Jeffrey A. Cohen & Michael J. Lewis, ''Frank Furness: The Complete Works''. Princeton Architectural Press, revised edition 1996.
*Venturi, Robert, ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture''. The Museum of Modern Art; 1966.
*{{Cite web
  |access-date=May 12, 2007
  |url=http://www.rushslancers.com/furness.html
  |title=Captain Frank Furness: Brilliant Architect and Medal of Honor winner
  |author=Eric J. Wittenberg
  |year=2000
  |work=The Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, "Rush's Lancers"
  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070502024155/http://www.rushslancers.com/furness.html
  |archive-date=May 2, 2007
  |url-status=dead
  }}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite episode |title=Frank Furness: A Philadelphia Original|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNbpNq3YbN0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/lNbpNq3YbN0| archive-date=December 12, 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=February 1, 2013|series=Philadelphia: The Great Experiment|last=History Making Productions}}{{cbignore}}
* {{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203630604578074961417417452|title=Building Power|last=Lewis|first=Michael J.|date=November 7, 2012|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=January 17, 2015}}
* {{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704402404574526080260245184|title=This Library Speaks Volumes|last=Lewis|first=Michael J.|date=November 14, 2009|work=Wall Street Journal|access-date=January 17, 2015}}

==External links==
* [http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display_projects.cfm/25652 Project List – Furness, Evans & Co.] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
* [http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm/25653 Project List – Frank Furness] at Philadelphia Architects and Buildings

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