what is interesting about frank lloyd wrights fallingwater house?
This article is about the house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. For the house designed by Richard Neutra, see Kaufmann Desert House. Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. Hailed by Time magazine shortly after its completion as Wright’s “most beautiful job,”[3] it is also listed among Smithsonian magazine’s Life List of 28 places “to visit before …it’s too late.”[4] Fallingwater was featured in Bob Vila’s A&E Network production, Guide to Historic Homes of America.[5] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.[1] In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects nam
Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1934 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. Hailed by Time magazine shortly after its completion as Wright’s “most beautiful job,” it is also listed among Smithsonian magazine’s Life List of 28 places “to visit before …it’s too late.” Fallingwater was featured in Bob Vila’s A&E Network production, Guide to Historic Homes of America. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the “best all-time work of American architecture” and in 2007, it was ranked twenty-ninth on the list of America’s Favorite Architec
