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...when the national economy improved, two commissions came to him that he utilized magnificently. The first was for a weekend retreat near Pittsburgh in the Allegheny Mountains. This residence, Fallingwater, was cantilevered over a waterfall with a simple daring that evoked wide publicity from 1936 to the present. Probably Wright’s most-admired work, it was later given to the state and was...
in Western architecture: The United States )At about the same time, Wright produced four masterpieces: Fallingwater, Bear Run, Pennsylvania (1936), the daringly cantilevered weekend house of Edgar Kaufmann; the administration building of S.C. Johnson & Son in Racine, Wisconsin, in which brick cylinders and planes develop a series of echoing spaces, culminating in the forest of graceful “mushroom” columns in the main hall;...
...War, in which Colonel George Washington surrendered to the French. The county was created in 1783 and named for the marquis de Lafayette. In 1936 architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house Fallingwater, which was built over the Bear Run waterfall in the community of Mill Run.
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