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Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania, usually described as America's most famous private residence, and about an hour's drive east of Pittsburgh, photographed in August 2011. The cost estimate Frank Lloyd Wright presented to patron Edgar Kaufmann, the Pittsburgh department-store magnate, was $30,000. Final cost: $155,000. And it leaked, always a sign of architectural genius.
Photos by EB contributor Mary Lou Chlipala.
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David Olive is a business and current affairs columnist at the Star, which he joined in 2001 after stints at the Globe and Mail, National Post and Financial Post.
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
- George Bernard Shaw
Beautiful spot and great architecture David. I can think of a couple of other places designed to fit their surroundings like this. The tourist viewing centre at French River on Highway 69 flows a little like this in similar surroundings and a tourist centre at Misery Bay on Manitoulin Island has also been built into the folds of the Canadian Shield!
Posted by: wascally wabbit | 09/11/2011 at 07:58 AM
The legend associated with Falling Water is that Kaufman the client kept paying instalments but never getting any progress reports from FLW. Finally he told FLW he was coming into his office and wanted to see drawings. FLW ran up the drawings in a day and Kaufman loved them. Someone commented that it was genius FLW could come up with the design in a day. FLW reportedly said, "No, 40 years and one day."
True or not, its a good story.
Posted by: johnnyk | 09/12/2011 at 01:57 PM