Horace Jayne House

Horace Jayne House (1895) is an architecturally significant building designed by architect Frank Furness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

The main entrance is off-center in a slightly projected section, with an oval window and a bracket-supported Juliet balcony above.

The Colonial Revival-detailed exterior is composed of red English sandstone and brick, and features terra cotta reliefs by sculptor Karl Bitter on the east, north and west façades and the pedimented dormers.

[3]: 319–20  A favorite visual pun of Furness's was to place a window above a fireplace, splitting the flues into the walls flanking it—as he did at Jefferson Medical College (1875–77) and the parish hall of First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia (1883–86).

[15] With the Jayne house's central hall he took his punning to an extreme, placing a curved balcony and a horseshoe-shaped seating area above the fireplace (accessed from an intermediate landing behind), and splitting the flues into piers that merged to form a soaring triumphal arch.