![]() A color he used a lot was known as Cherokee Red and it permeates this house, as it does his other designer homes. You will find so many signature styles of Frank Lloyd Wright in almost any structure you visit. It’s a structure that will forever be honored in the annals of American architectural history, and it’s an absolute must-see for lovers of art, history, architecture, and nature alike. This iconic structure is the best example of marrying a modern style with the ancient beauty of nature itself, and I don’t think it will ever be duplicated again. If you’re looking for a travel destination or you’ll be visiting southwestern Pennsylvania, I highly encourage you to take your own FALLINGWATER tour. ![]() ![]() Touring Fallingwater is great for nature lovers too. The grounds are absolutely as important to the tour as the home. The grounds of Fallingwater were designed to bring that feel all the way to the home, accentuating nature rather than competing with it. It’s located in the Bera Run Nature Preserve – 5,100 acres of pristine nature filled with forests, streams, and trails. In fact, when you take your Fallingwater tour be sure not to overlook them. The Fallingwater grounds are just as spectacular as the home itself. Wright wanted to pull out of the project due to the contractor demands, but the Kaufmanns persuaded him to stay on. He felt it would make the cantilever design of the house safer. The contractor did double the amount of steel. ![]() During restoration in 1995, for example, it was discovered that more reinforcing steel had been used than Frank Lloyd Wright plans had allowed for. Our tour guide also told us that Frank Lloyd Wright and the project engineer did not always agree on everything. The guides will be a wealth of knowledge and give you a few little facts which aren’t commonly known. Guided tours are the best for when you can take them. Aside from those tours, they also offer field trips, brunch tours, sunset tours, focus tours, and even a forest-to-table dinner experience. The in-depth tour offers an extended interior tour along with access to the grounds and a ton of great information along the way. You can choose from a guided tour or an in-depth guided tour. The wonderful thing about a Fallingwater tour is that you can experience both the natural beauty of the grounds and the architectural beauty of the home and its interior. It’s also named the best all-time work of American architecture by a poll of members of the American Institute of Architects. This beautiful structure is designated as a National Historic Landmark and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Treasure. That’s the official start of the discovery of Fallingwater. Travelers will have time to explore the grounds, Visitor Center exhibits, and impressively-curated Museum Store before tours begin.Once you arrive at Fallingwater, you’ll be treated to exploring this iconic structure. Anchored into rock formations and built over a stream, the home appears to float over a waterfall, at one with nature. Once the summer home of the Kaufmann family, prominent Pittsburgh department store owners, Fallingwater is truly a country hideaway. Duncan, and in 2004 it was dismantled and moved to and reconstructed on the 125-acre tract of woodland called Polymath Park.įallingwater, a National Historic Landmark and Wright’s crowning achievement in organic architecture. The house became derelict after the death of Mr. Duncan House, one of FLY’s Usonian prefab homes owned by Elizabeth & Donald Duncan in Wisconsin. Polymath Park’s natural surroundings are also home to two homes designed by apprentices of Wright, the Balter House and Blum House, both organic to the site. Polymath Park, where Frank Lloyd Wright’s Duncan House is a demonstration of his Usonian tenets of compression and release. There are three of his iconic homes in Pennsylvania’s Laurel Highlands region – including Fallingwater, which the American Institute of Architects calls the “best all-time work of American architecture.” Set in surroundings of raw natural beauty with mountain ranges, river gorges and diverse flora, this collection of Wright homes inspire a sense of wonder and exploration. “The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.” – Frank Lloyd Wright, 1957įrank Lloyd Wright created some of the most innovative spaces in the United States during his 70-year career.
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