Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

[Mousetoescamper]

This a cellphone photo of a 35mm film print. I took the original photo in 1992 using a Minolta X-7A 35mm manual focus SLR.

Fallingwater is a house designed in 1935 by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) for the Kaufmann family, owners of Pittsburgh’s largest department store. Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater is one of his most widely acclaimed works and best exemplifies his philosophy of organic architecture: the harmonious union of art and nature.


Fallingwater is located in the mountains of Southwestern Pennsylvania, also known as the Laurel Highlands, in Mill Run, Fayette County, which is about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Wright designed Fallingwater to rise above the waterfall over which it is built. Local craftsmen quarried native sandstone and other materials from the property and completed the construction of the main house, guest house and service wing in 1939.

The Kaufmann family—Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr. (1885-1955), Liliane S. Kaufmann (1889-1952), and their son, Edgar Kaufmann jr. (1910-1989)—used Fallingwater as a vacation house during their lifetimes. In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann jr. donated and entrusted Fallingwater and the surrounding 469 acres of natural land to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy., a nonprofit conservation organization established in 1932.

[ebbie15644]

1. Not far from me

My great grandma took me when I was a little girl to tour it

[Diamond_Dog]

2. I've toured this house

A long time ago. Really fascinating. That’s a great photo, Mousetoescamper!

[Mousetoescamper]

4. Thanks, Diamond_Dog!

[nwliberalkiwi]

3. I took a similar image

Several years ago I took a similar image, but in the Fall. I drove many miles to take the image.

[The Roux Comes First]

5. I Have Always Greatly Admired That Domicile, With the Wonderful Integration Into the Setting

But I confess that once I became a homeowner, (a good long time ago), I found it tough to stifle a little voice asking about water damage and floods and such!