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Fallingwater is a house in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Pennsylvania, United States, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Situated in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh , [ 4 ] it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run river.
Known as Water Run, this property was sold in 2021 for $1.6M. Kaufmann died in 1989, [9] and his ashes were scattered around the property at Fallingwater by Mayén. [5] [10] Mayén died on November 3, 2000. His ashes were also scattered at Fallingwater in accordance with his wishes. [1] [3] [11]
The majority of his and his wife's estate was left to the Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Fund, which concentrates efforts on improving the lives of Pittsburgh's residents. His son Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. inherited Fallingwater, and in 1963 donated it, [11] along with the pristine natural mountain acreage, to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Both ...
Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania (1937) Fallingwater, one of Wright's most famous private residences (completed 1937), was built for Mr. and Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., at Mill Run, Pennsylvania. Constructed over a 20-foot waterfall, it was designed according to Wright's desire to place the occupants close to the natural surroundings.
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a wheel (usually constructed from wood or metal), with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving car. Water wheels were still in commercial use well into ...
The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Fallingwater house, perched over the Bear Run waterfall at Mill Run, Pennsylvania, is an internationally renowned architectural landmark. Fallingwater was entrusted to the Conservancy by Edgar Kaufmann jr. [sic] in Oct., 1963. [21]
Name FLWFA No. [2] Storrer No. [3] City State or Country Designed Built Other Information Image Unity Chapel: 8601: S.000: Spring Green: Wisconsin: 1886: 1886: Designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee.
When he left Wright's Taliesin Fellowship in 1935, he joined the family business and became merchandise manager for home furnishings, and in 1938, was elected secretary of the Kaufmann Department Stores, Inc. [6] In 1940, Edgar wrote to Alfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art, proposing the Organic Design in Home Furnishings Competition, won by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen.