Frank Furness, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Frank Furness

Philadelphia architect and United States Army Medal of Honor recipient

Date of Birth: 12-Nov-1839

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1912

Profession: architect

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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 unordinarily scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan.
Furness also received a Medal of Honor for bravery during the 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, Pennsylvania.