The enduring spirit of Philadelphia architect Frank Furness

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Philadelphia designer Frank Furness, a erstwhile Army skipper during the Civil War, translated his fearlessness into the designs of astir 1,000 buildings – elaborate structures whose oversized arches, asymmetrical facades and eccentric decorations broke escaped from the polite Victorian era-style. "Sunday Morning" nationalist analogous Robert Costa takes a circuit of Furness' Philadelphia with Wall Street Journal architectural professional Michael Lewis, who explains wherefore the architect's estimation has gained a reappraisal.

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