This morning we awakened to blue skies and warm spring sunshine. The perfect day for visiting Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house near Mill Run Pennsylvania. We went ahead and splurged for the “in-depth” tour which allowed us access to a couple of rooms that are not on the usual tour as well as the opportunity to take photographs throughout the house. I am not allowed to post those pictures but will share them another time. Eight of us were lead on the two hour tour by a woman named Uta who was not only well read on Wright’s work, but passionate about the preservation of it. The home was built in the 1930’s for a wealthy Pittsburg family. I have always admired Wright’s style and have visited several homes he designed and built but not until this one did I grasp what a genius the man really was.
Down the road a bit we visited a second, less famous, Wright house named Kentuck Knob. This home was easier to imagine oneself living in but had the same attention to detail and functionality throughout. This was a much shorter tour and afterwards we took a walk through a meadow filled with interesting sculptures from the owner’s private collection, including three-foot wide section of the Berlin wall.
We visited the little tourist/whitewater rafting village of Ohiopyle before returning home for the night.
Down the road a bit we visited a second, less famous, Wright house named Kentuck Knob. This home was easier to imagine oneself living in but had the same attention to detail and functionality throughout. This was a much shorter tour and afterwards we took a walk through a meadow filled with interesting sculptures from the owner’s private collection, including three-foot wide section of the Berlin wall.
We visited the little tourist/whitewater rafting village of Ohiopyle before returning home for the night.
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