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Title
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Artist
Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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In the rolling hills of southwest Pennsylvania, not far from where I was born, is a famous home known as Fallingwater. The house that straddles a bubbling creek was designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. The house was built for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., a prominent businessman in nearby Pittsburgh and the owner of that city's Kaufmann’s Department Store. After the completion of the house in 1938, Wright made the cover of Time Magazine and in the accompanying story Fallingwater was referred to as Wright's "most beautiful job." In 1991, the American Institute of Architects named Fallingwater the "best all-time work of American architecture" and Smithsonian Magazine listed Fallingwater on its "Life List of 28 Places to Visit Before You Die." The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and has been owned by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy since 1963 when Kaufman donated the property to the organization. Fallingwater is open to the public six days a week (it is closed on Wednesdays) and is an easy drive from Pittsburgh via Interstate 79 and Route 40.
My father, an employee of the local telephone company, worked in the house on its phone lines in the early 1950s. When I visit Fallingwater, I get a sense of my father having worked there a long, long time ago.
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October 2nd, 2014
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