fallingwater

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Fallingwater
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Location:	Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Nearest city:	Pittsburgh
Coordinates:	39°54′22″N 79°28′5″W / 39.90611°N 79.46806°W / 39.90611; -79.46806Coordinates: 39°54′22″N 79°28′5″W / 39.90611°N 79.46806°W / 39.90611; -79.46806
Built:	1936 - 1939
Architect:	Frank Lloyd Wright
Architectural style:	Organic architecture
Visitation:	about 135,000
Governing body:	Western Pennsylvania Conservancy
NRHP Reference#:	74001781[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP:	July 23, 1974
Designated NHL:	May 23, 1966[2]

Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.(from wiki)