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Horace Howard Furness High School is a secondary school in South Philadelphia. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.Portions of South Philadelphia are zoned to Furness. A section of Center City, including Society Hill and Old City, is zoned to Furness for high school.HistoryIt was originally named Horace Furness Junior High School. It was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards and built by Cramp & Co. in 1914. It is a four-story, rectangular, reinforced concrete building clad in brick and terra cotta in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features an oversized arched entryway, blind panels, terra cotta quoining, and a brick parapet. It was named for Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness (1833-1912).It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Horace Furness Junior High School in 1986.TransportationSEPTA routes 29, 57 and 79 serve Furness.School uniformsFurness requires its students to wear school uniforms. Students may wear a gray shirt that must have a collar on it with black pants.

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