{"id":803002,"date":"2026-05-17T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803002\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:18:16","slug":"the-enduring-spirit-of-philadelphia-architect-frank-furness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/803002\/","title":{"rendered":"The enduring spirit of Philadelphia architect Frank Furness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, a former Army captain during the Civil War, translated his fearlessness into the designs of about 1,000 buildings \u2013 elaborate structures whose oversized arches, asymmetrical facades and eccentric decorations broke free from the polite Victorian era-style. &#8220;Sunday Morning&#8221; national correspondent Robert Costa takes a tour of Furness&#8217; Philadelphia with Wall Street Journal architectural critic Michael Lewis, who explains why the architect&#8217;s reputation has gained a reappraisal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia architect Frank Furness, a former Army captain during the Civil War, translated his fearlessness into the designs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":803003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,326959,326958,326956,65633,1448,2830,1311,326957,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-803002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-army-captain","10":"tag-fearlessness","11":"tag-frank-furness","12":"tag-michael-lewis","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-robert-costa","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116590353527039885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}