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Fallingwater is named for the location of the main house, [19] [20] which is oriented roughly south-southeast. [21] The Bear Run stream, a tributary of the Youghiogheny River , has an upper falls about 20–30 feet (6.1–9.1 m) high (where the main house is situated) and a lower falls about 7–10 feet (2.1–3.0 m) high.
Bear Run is in the Appalachian Mountains and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The Fallingwater house, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is located on this stream at the locality known as Mill Run. [7] Bear Run is inside the Bear Run Nature Reserve, protected by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. [8]
Gregor's wife Elizabeth was particularly fond of Wright's Fallingwater, so when the couple wanted to build their own house in 1940, they commissioned Wright to design this house. The site was a unique lot, densely wooded, with no level ground, which allowed Wright to explore and refine his design for a home on sloping ground.
Fallingwater, 2013 Kaufmann Desert House, 2017. Edgar J. Kaufmann and his wife, Liliane, commissioned two of the most recognized landmarks of 20th-century American modernism architecture: Pennsylvania's Fallingwater and California's Kaufmann Desert House. Fallingwater is a National Historic Landmark [6] and on the National Register of Historic ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website since that time. [3]
Howard Hanna, the official housing provider for the convention, made sure to add a line about the house being a former home to an infamous killer in their listing before the convention.
Location of Ross County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ross County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ross County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which ...
Firefighters were called to Vic Joy Drive just before 9 a.m. and found the house blown apart and in flames, Bethel Tate Fire Chief Christopher Cooper said. Debris had been launched throughout the ...