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	Frank Furness, Architect, Philadelphia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Furness was the most unique and prolific American architect of the nineteenth century.
		Frank Furness was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1839.
		Furness had no use for the fussy grammar of medieval archaeology; like Michelangelo, the first man to make architecture a vehicle of personal expression, he willfully distorted his forms to convey emotion and physical sensation, imparting to them something of the physical awareness of his own body -- or so it can seem.
	livingplaces.com /people/FrankFurness.html?... (609 words)

	Frank Furness -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Heyling Furness (1839 - 1912) was a noted American (Someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)) architect.
		Furness was born in (The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania) Philadelphia.
		His father, William Furness, was a prominent Unitarian minister, and his brother, (additional info and facts about Horace Furness) Horace Furness, was an outstanding Shakespeare scholar; Furness, however, did not attend a university and apparently did not travel to Europe.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frank_furness.htm (475 words)

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		The Furness library of the University of Pennsylvania is a large red brick, brownstone and terra cotta building which was designed by the firm of Furness, Evans and Co, and was erected in 1888.
		Frank Furness was aware of technological innovations and adapted his ornament to standardized motifs that could be more easily produced.
		Frank Furness is now recognized as one of the most important architects of the 19th century and, along with H.H. Richardson, the most important designer of libraries in the country.
	www.uchs.net /HistoricDistricts/furness.html (1831 words)

	Lawrence Biemiller's Stories from 'The Chronicle': Furness Library
		In planning it, Furness consulted not only with one of his brothers, Horace Furness, a noted Shakespeare scholar who was chairman of the university's building committee, but also with Melvin Dewey, who created the Dewey Decimal System, and with Justin Winsor, the librarian at Harvard University.
		Frank Furness took advantage of the development to plan a library whose shelf space could be expanded as necessary by adding additional segments to a fireproof wing that housed only stacks.
		Furness saw to it that the rest of the library would be almost as bright: Everywhere he punched huge windows through both exterior and interior walls.
	www.iceandcoal.org /nfa/furness.html (1350 words)

	Captain Frank Furness
		CAPTAIN FRANK FURNESS: BRILLIANT ARCHITECT AND MEDAL OF Born on November 11, 1839, Frank Furness was the son of a prominent Philadelphia clergyman and abolitionist, William Henry Furness.
		Captain Furness caused two boxes of ammunition to be taken from his already scanty supply and placing one on his head asked what officer or man would volunteer to carry the other Captain Walsh Mitchell at once seized the other, likewise placing it on his head, said that he would cheerfully follow Captain Furness.
		Furness served out his term of enlistment and was discharged from the 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry in the fall of 1864.
	www.rushslancers.com /furness.html (1254 words)

	Successful Sales Techniques
		Frank Furness, Successful Sales Techniques, This workshop covers all the bases of what it takes to be a great sales person, The majority of this workshop will focus on practical & useable sales ideas.
		Frank touches on all the bases needed to be a great salesperson.
		Frank Furness is a sought after motivational and after dinner speaker.
	www.cityspeakersinternational.co.uk /training_details.php?tdID=43 (294 words)

	Furness, Frank (1839-1912) -- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in Philadelphia, the son of the Rev. William Henry Furness, Frank Furness was educated in private schools in the city.
		George Hewitt left the firm in 1875; and by 1881 Furness and his chief draftsman, Allen Evans, had established the new partnership of Furness & Evans.
		Furness was one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Institute of Architects in 1869 and held fellowship status in the AlA.
	www.philadelphiabuildings.org /pab/app/ar_display.cfm?ArchitectId=A0478 (380 words)

	Frank Furness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Heyling Furness (1839 - 1912) was a noted American architect.
		Furness considered himself Hunt’s apprentice and was influenced by Hunt’s dynamic personality and accomplished, elegant buildings.
		Lewis, Michael J., Frank Furness : Architecture and the Violent Mind, 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Furness (376 words)

	NP Architecture/Design Books
		Furness had a curiosity about his own appearance that took the form of his endless caricatures of himself.
		Furness had no use for the fussy grammar of medieval archaeology; like Michelangelo, the first man to make architecture a vehicle of personal expression, he willfully distorted his forms to convey emotion and physical sensation, imparting to them something of the physical awareness of his own body—or so it can seem.
		Furness was a man of his age, immersed in its most powerful currents and forces.
	www.wwnorton.com /NPB/nparch/ffurnessexpt.html (1168 words)

	Ecademy Profile: Frank Furness
		Frank Furness CFP hails originally from South Africa and is now a London, UK based motivator, trainer and Professional Speaker.
		Frank started his training and development company in 1997 and is currently working with many Blue Chip Companies, SMEs and individuals.
		Frank Furness is not only a marvellous, successful professional speaker, he knows all the insiders information about speaking globally.
	us.ecademy.com /account.php?id=38554 (607 words)

	The railroad designs of Frank Furness: Architecture and corporate imagery in the late nineteenth century
		After 1890, his firm Furness, Evans and Company designed stations from Pittsburgh to the Hudson River for the Pennsylvania Railroad, including some of the most prestigious commissions from this, the largest corporation in America.
		In the 1880s, the expression of corporate identity was developing as a form of communication, and architecture--and particularly railroad architecture--was to assist at its birth.
		Frank Furness was an exemplar of the American architect in this new role, and his professional identity was shaped by it, as shown by his patent and trademark activity.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9321487 (417 words)

	Frank Furness - Motivational Speaker
		Frank's passion for goal setting and personal and professional development has inspired many individuals.
		Frank's boundless energy and contagious enthusiasm has led to a number of organisations retaining him as a consultant.
		He is the founder and past president of Northwest London Speakers Club, a member of NSA and a founder member of the Professional Speakers Association in the United Kingdom.
	www.motivational-speaker.co.uk (288 words)

	Frank Furness - motivational speaker
		Frank tells of the differences and what is needed for individuals to develop these skills simultaneously.
		Frank shares the secrets of success of these top producers as well as a 21 point plan to be more effective.
		Frank Furness relates these winning traits to the business world and how the same attitudes and passions work in sport and business.
	www.nyt.co.uk /frank.furness.htm (548 words)

	Frank Heyling Furness -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Except for a narrow coastal plain, Furness is predominantly upland, with such eminences as the Old Man of Coniston and Wetherlam.
		U.S. astronaut Frank Borman was born in Gary, Ind., in 1928.
		U.S. Army Air Corps combat pilot Frank Luke, known as the “Arizona balloon-buster,” in 1919 posthumously received the Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. military decoration, for bravery in World War I. He was the second-ranked ace of the war, after Eddie Rickenbacker.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9035690?tocId=9035690 (710 words)

	Brooke Mansion - Birdsboro, Pennsylvania,USA
		Today he is admired for the power and strength of his expressive designs and hailed as one of the most inventive architects of his period.
		When Furness began his architectural career in 1859, Philadelphia was a staid and sober Quaker city, comfortable in its old traditions.
		Whether the critics liked it or not, Furness's work was popular with the emerging business and railroad elite who wanted energetic, avant-garde architecture to provide a public identity for their growing enterprises, as well as striking new homes to stand as testament to their personal wealth and importance.
	www.brookemansion.com /frank_furness/index.asp (180 words)

	The Buildings
		The building, designed by the Philadelphia firm of Frank Furness and George Hewitt, is generally considered to be primarily the work of Furness who finished the project after the partnership dissolved in 1875.
		Furness had been a pupil of Richard Morris Hunt who introduced him to the esthetics of the modern Gothic revival.
		Orlowski, Mark B. Frank Furness and the Heroic Ideal, Dissertation, 1986 (University of Michigan) [Copy in Pennsylvania Academy Library].
	www.pafa.org /theBuildings.jsp (649 words)

	The Frank Furness Collection
		Among the major architects who helped give shape to Victorian Philadelphia was Frank Furness.
		In the years following the Civil War, Furness and his associates dotted the Philadelphia landscape with a remarkable group of buildings ranging from factories and warehouses to schools, hospitals, banks, railroad stations, and private residences.
		Furness was a co-founder of the Philadelphia Chapter of the A.I.A. and a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor and Centennial Award of Honor.
	www.design.upenn.edu /archives/majorcollections/furness.html (248 words)

	The Undine Barge Club Boathouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The bold shapes, scales and individualism of Furness' work are perhaps nowhere more apparent than here, along Boathouse Row, where the unique character of the Undine Boathouse stands prominently apart from the more conventional architecture of its neighbors.
		There are larger and more flamboyant buildings by Frank Furness, but few better exemplify his original ideas that are the root of modern architecture than his design for the Undine Barge Club Boathouse.
		Working in Philadelphia, Furness was able to apply what are essential modern principles to the shaping of architectural form.
	www.undine.com /boathouse.html (371 words)

	The University of the Arts Libraries: Dorrance Hamilton Hall
		In 1875, Frank Furness (1830-1912) designed two Victorian Gothic wings connecting the Haviland/Strickland building with 15th Street.
		In addition to the large wings, Furness also designed the carriage house (now used as a sculpture studio) and the two long red brick walls that enclose portions of the Furness wings.
		Furness was a noted Victorian architect who also designed the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1876), the Fisher Fine Arts Library (1890) at the University of Pennsylvania, and the old Broad Street Station for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
	www.uarts.edu /stuserv/libraries/archives/hamilton.html (1250 words)

	Search Results for Furness - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Except for a narrow coastal plain, Furness is predominantly upland, with such eminences as the Old Man of Coniston...
		U.S. architect, significant for the forceful originality of his buildings and for his influence on Louis H. Sullivan, who was a draftsman in 1873 for the Philadelphia firm of Furness and Hewitt...
		It lies on the seaward side of the Furness peninsula between the estuary of the River...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Furness&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (292 words)

	Powell's Books - Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind by Michael J. Lewis
		Lewis (history of American art, Williams College) provides a biography of Furness (1839-1912), whose architecture is considered both eye-catching and aggressive, that explains the ways that his abolitionist upbringing and experiences during the Civil War led to an architectural style that fit perfectly with the commercial imagery of the Gilded Age.
		Bandw photographs on nearly every page highlight Furness' development and scope of his work, from libraries and churches, to row houses and mansions.
		Frank Furness's energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture.
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	Michael J. Lewis - 0393730638 - A. I. Tobin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Forester s Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British Provinces of North America.
		Frank Gascoigne Heath and his ",Newlyn school", friends at Lamorna.
		Frank Lloyd Wright : The Seat of Genius, Chairs : 1895-1955.
	www.howtowrite.net /156731frank_furness_architecture_violent_mind.html (100 words)

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		“The architect Frank Furness was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1839.
		Furness designed The Emlen Physick House, a notable example of Stick Style architecture, in 1879.
		Michael J. Lewis, Frank Furness (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. 2001).
	www.ettc.net /njarts/details.cfm?ID=307 (277 words)

	Stop press: Frank Furness to do Haslemere! - Ecademy
		I am excited to announce that international motivational speaker and recently joined Ecademy member Frank Furness has kindly agreed to speak at the next Haslemere Ecademy on Monday 1st March, 2004
		Frank's credentials include 20 years of exceptional business success in sales, management, training and recruiting.
		Frank will speaking on the subject 'Finding new clients'.
	www.ecademy.com /node.php?id=17215 (319 words)

	Thomas Eakins -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Because of its frank and unsentimental nature, the work generally acknowledged as his masterpiece, “The Gross Clinic”...
		Specializing in American painting and sculpture of the 18th to the 20th century, the Academy's Art Museum was built between 1872 and 1876 according to designs by architect Frank Furness (1839–1912).
		His contemporaries, rather than allowing themselves to be shaken by his frank statements of the human condition and his joyous appreciation of the human body, ignored him.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274100 (613 words)

	Frank Furness - international speaker and trainer, specialist in sale, and increasing business
		Frank Furness is an international motivational speaker, trainer and recruiter.
		Frank has helped audiences around the world to shine with improved sales, leadership and communication skills.
		Frank Furness, Koutaki House, 1 A Meadowbank, Oxhey, Watford, Herts, WD19 4NP
	www.frankfurness.com (131 words)

	Amazon.com: Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind: Books: Michael J. Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Frank Furness: The Complete Works by George E. Thomas
		From the moment of his birth on November 12, 1839, Frank Heyling Furness existed in two worlds: the physical world of Quaker Philadelphia, with its prim manners and serried streets of brick rowhouses, and the cultural world of Boston, where his family originated.
		Furness must have been an intense character, and the insight this book gives on his family, childhood, history, and being a novice architect is informative, but I was hoping for a less bias, more thorough analysis and review of him and his work.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393730638?v=glance (692 words)

	Frank Furness ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Frank Bellew, The Situation On The Black Sea, 1877
		Martis Morris Gallery installation will reference the Academys striking decorative program by building architect Frank Furness, as well as its historic curatorial practice, through the use of dramatic lighting, flocked wallpaper, and faux ease...
		Frank Furness - speaker, recruitment, training, sales success profile, offshore, motivation
	www.wwar.com /masters/f/furness-frank.html (220 words)

	Frank Furness - Great Buildings Online
		Pennsylvania Academy of Art, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1871 to 1876.
		Search the RIBA architecture library catalog for more references on Frank Furness
		We appreciate your suggestions for links about Frank Furness.
	www.greatbuildings.com /architects/Frank_Furness.html (220 words)

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