The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Reference no.
1496-005
Region
Europe and North America
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Designated
July 23, 1974[1]
Reference no.
74001781[1]
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Designated
May 23, 1966[2]
Pennsylvania Historical Marker
Designated
May 15, 1994[3]
Fallingwater path from house to guest house
Fallingwater is a house designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. Situated in the Mill Run section of Stewart township, in the Laurel Highlands of southwest Pennsylvania, about 70 miles (110 km) southeast of Pittsburgh in the United States,[4] it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run river. The house was designed to serve as a weekend retreat for Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann, the owner of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann's Department Store.
After its completion, Time called Fallingwater Wright's "most beautiful job"[5] and it is listed among Smithsonian's "Life List of 28 Places to See Before You Die".[6] The house was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976.[7] In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) named Fallingwater the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in 2007, the AIA ranked it 29th on its list of America's Favorite Architecture.[8]
In 2019, the house and seven other Wright constructions were inscribed as World Heritage Sites under the title, "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright".[9]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^"Fallingwater". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 24, 2008. Retrieved July 2, 2008.
^"PHMC Historical Markers". Historical Marker Database. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. Archived from the original on December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
^"Fallingwater". Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
^"Usonian Architect". Time. January 17, 1938. Archived from the original on March 12, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2008.
^"The Smithsonian Life List". Smithsonian. January 2008. Retrieved August 19, 2010.
^"NHLS Associated with Frank Lloyd Wright – National Historic Landmarks (U.S. National Park Service)".
^"AIA 150" (PDF). NPR.
^"The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved July 7, 2019.
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