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Throughout his career, Frank Lloyd Wright experimented with new ways to design homes and integrate them into nature. Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob are prime examples of this organic architecture. Travel to the scenic Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania for a day-long tour led by Bill Keene, a lecturer in history, urban studies, and architecture.
Wright’s most iconic structure, Fallingwater was designed in 1936 as a mountain retreat for the Kaufmann family of Pittsburgh. Cantilevered over a waterfall, the angular house of concrete, steel, glass, and stone was conceived to harmonize with the tones and textures of its rural site. It’s also the only major Wright work whose setting, original furnishings, and artworks remain intact.
Constructed entirely of Tidewater red cypress and native fieldstone, the house on Kentuck Knob appears almost a part of the mountain on which it is built. Designed in 1953 for the I.N. Hagan family, Kentuck Knob is now filled with the furnishings and art of its owners, Lord and Lady Palumbo.
Enjoy a box lunch between visits to the sites, and a group dinner to share the day’s adventure.
7:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. by bus from the Holiday Inn Capitol at 550 C Street, S.W. (corner of 6th and C Sts.), with a pickup stop at the I-270 Exit 26 Urbana carpool lot at approximately 7:55 a.m.
Please note: Some areas of Fallingwater are not accessible to visitors with disabilities.
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