Frank Furness - Gallery

Gallery

• Thomas and H. Pratt McKean Townhouses, 1923-25 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1869, demolished 1897 and 1920s).

• Diningroom of the Theodore Roosevelt Sr. townhouse, New York, New York (1873, demolished). Daniel Pabst probably fashioned the paneling, woodwork and furniture.

• Lindenshade (Horace Howard Furness house), Wallingford, Pennsylvania (c. 1873, demolished 1940). Built for the architect's brother, the country house was later greatly expanded.

• Thomas Hockley house, 235 S. 21st St., Philadelphia (1875), Furness & Hewitt.

• Gatehouses, Philadelphia Zoo, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (1875–76, altered), Furness & Hewitt.

• Centennial National Bank, Philadelphia (1876), now Paul Peck Alumni Center, Drexel University.

• Brazilian Section, Main Exhibition Building, Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia (1876).

• 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.

• Wallingford Station, Wallingford, Pennsylvania (c. 1880). Horace Howard Furness's country house, Lindenshade, stood on the hill behind the station.

• Knowlton (William H. Rhawn mansion), Northeast Philadelphia (1881).

• Dolobran (Clement A. Griscom mansion), Haverford, Pennsylvania (1881).

• Reliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia (1881-82, demolished 1960).

• Undine Barge Club,
  #13 Boathouse Row, Philadelphia (1882–83).

• Hockley Row, 237-41 S. 21st St., Philadelphia (1884–86).

• First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia (1886).

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, Philadelphia (1886–88, demolished 1963), looking west from 24th Street.

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, Philadelphia, stairs from Lower Waiting Room.

• Idlewild, Media, Pennsylvania (1888). Furness's own country house is reminiscent of his University of Pennsylvania Library.

• Alexander J. Cassatt townhouse, 202 West Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia (altered by Furness c. 1888, demolished 1972).

• Horace F. Jayne house, 19th & Delancey Sts., Philadelphia (1895). The grandest of his surviving city houses, Mrs. Jayne was Furness's niece Caroline.

• Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1896–97). Allen Evans was a founding member of the club, and probably designed all its buildings.

• Arcade Building and pedestrian bridge to Broad Street Station, Philadelphia (1901–02, demolished 1969).

• Girard Trust Company Building, Philadelphia (1907), (now the 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.