I'm going to show off another amazing Frank Lloyd Wright house in this special HOUSES 101 post! The home is called Fallingwater. It was designed with the terrain. With the landscape and falling water, (hint the name) the house looks beautiful. 1930s houses are not usually designed this way. Let's just say that a lot of the houses in that time period (not designed by Wright) were boring. But Fallingwater is exactly the opposite. It is in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, and was designed for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr. He wanted the budget to be between $20,000 and $30,000, but obviously Wright made it cost a lot more than that. (His architectural creations were always way over budget.)
From the book Up Close: Frank Lloyd Wright, I read, "Kaufmann, himself, had a few reservations. He had requested that the home have a view of the waterfall. As designed, the house was over the waterfall. Wright brushed this aside, saying that he didn't want the family to merely look at the waterfall but to live in it." (typical Wright)
The entire house, when it was done, costed $155,000. Also, you need to remember that this was way back in the 1900s. The house now would cost about $2.4 million! You see how Wright can raise the budget! (raise being an understatement) Wright had a passion for Japanese architecture, and he was strongly influenced by it through Fallingwater. The flowing waterfall and springs add another beautiful element to the house.
Kaufmann Jr. donated the house and property to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963. Currently, the house hosts over 120,000 visitors each year!
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