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- catalog abstract ""Philadelphia architect Frank Furness (1839-1912) produced the most aggressive and eye-catching buildings ever seen in the United States, merging French classicism, English medievalism, and New England transcendentalism. His energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture." "This first biography of the flamboyant personality whom Louis Sullivan dubbed "the dog man" shows Furness a man of his age, immersed in its most powerful currents and forces. It details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, the transformative experience of the Civil War (in which he served as a cavalry officer and earned a Congressional Medal of Honor), and its translation into swaggering architecture that met the needs for vivid commercial imagery in the Gilded Age. It recounts how Furness's rip-roaring professional style brought him success when he served a generation of veterans but helped make him a pariah in the transformed culture of America at the turn of the twentieth century." "Michael J. Lewis's lively narrative draws on military records, unpublished family papers, interviews with family members, and contemporary documents, enriched by over 200 illustrations, including archival views of demolished masterpieces and contemporary photographs of Furness buildings that still stand today. Among these are the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the library of the University of Pennsylvania, churches, banks, a railroad station, and numerous row houses and mansions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12038018.
- catalog contributor b12038019.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Michael J. Lewis's lively narrative draws on military records, unpublished family papers, interviews with family members, and contemporary documents, enriched by over 200 illustrations, including archival views of demolished masterpieces and contemporary photographs of Furness buildings that still stand today. Among these are the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the library of the University of Pennsylvania, churches, banks, a railroad station, and numerous row houses and mansions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Philadelphia architect Frank Furness (1839-1912) produced the most aggressive and eye-catching buildings ever seen in the United States, merging French classicism, English medievalism, and New England transcendentalism. His energy, confidence, brashness, vulgarity, and full-throated love of life vibrate in his architecture."".
- catalog description ""This first biography of the flamboyant personality whom Louis Sullivan dubbed "the dog man" shows Furness a man of his age, immersed in its most powerful currents and forces. It details his abolitionist upbringing in staid Philadelphia, the transformative experience of the Civil War (in which he served as a cavalry officer and earned a Congressional Medal of Honor), and its translation into swaggering architecture that met the needs for vivid commercial imagery in the Gilded Age. It recounts how Furness's rip-roaring professional style brought him success when he served a generation of veterans but helped make him a pariah in the transformed culture of America at the turn of the twentieth century."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Abolition & architecture -- Frank Furness's war -- Late to the feast -- Fortune favors the bold -- The dog man -- Brave dreams -- Talkers are no great doers -- The white city & the red station -- To purchase oblivion -- The bravest of the brave.".
- catalog extent "x, 273 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0393730638".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Norton,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "720/.92 B 21".
- catalog subject "Architects United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Furness, Frank, 1839-1912.".
- catalog subject "NA737.F84 L49 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Abolition & architecture -- Frank Furness's war -- Late to the feast -- Fortune favors the bold -- The dog man -- Brave dreams -- Talkers are no great doers -- The white city & the red station -- To purchase oblivion -- The bravest of the brave.".
- catalog title "Frank Furness : architecture and the violent mind / Michael J. Lewis.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".