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Photos: Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater House Exclusive Access

by candice.tsuei | September 25, 2009 at 09:17 am

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Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Fallingwater House will now offer exclusive access to select groups of overnight guests.

Probably one of the most well-known of American architects, Frank Lloyd Wright has designed more than 1,000 projects that emphasized his concept of "organic architecture." His work is innovative and includes a wide range of building types, such as offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums.

The Fallingwater House, an example of Lloyd's organic architecture, was built amid a waterfall in the leafy Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania in 1934 for department store owner Edgar Kaufmann Sr., and has been a point of pilgrimage for architecture enthusiasts. In the coming months, curators of the house will be offering a new program called Insight Onsite at Fallingwater, allowing visitors to spend one full day and two evenings at the residence, and feel what living in Fallingwater is truly like.

Since Fallingwater House became public to the open, four million people have visited. While the admission fee for regular visitors is $18, the intimate experience offered by the Fallingwater House Exclusive Access program is priced at $1,195.

"It's a different experience of the house when you are here by yourself than when you are with a group of people," Fallingwater Director Lynda Waggoner said in her office, nestled at the back of the house. "We'd like to be able to share that."

Up to eight people will arrive in the evening and be given an in-depth tour and then sleep overnight, not in Fallingwater itself but in a newer four-bedroom home built on the grounds for the accountant of the family which owned the property.

The next morning visitors have the morning to lounge around the house and grounds, have lunch on the terraces, have more time alone to do as you wish and then have a dinner party at the house with curators and a guest, perhaps a leading figure in the architecture community.

Built at the height of the Great Depression, the Fallingwater House cost $155,000, or about $2.3 million when adjusted for inflation.

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Rhonda J Mangus

at 09:50 on September 25th, 2009

Thanks for this candice.tsuei! Another of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest: "Prairie House," the five structure Darwin Martin House Complex designed and built 1903-1905 in Buffalo, NY, not far from where I live. I find his architectural strength brilliant! Thanks again!

sara star

at 10:50 on September 25th, 2009

This is incredible. The earth is so beautiful!

Vic De Zen

at 12:25 on September 25th, 2009

That is an amazing place. I'd love to see that one day!

a211423

at 13:29 on September 25th, 2009

Thank you for the video. It's beautifully choreographed in image and music. The home is amazing, and Wright's unique ability to create structures that appear to belong in a space, rather than intruding upon it could not be better displayed. Definitely a joy to all the senses for those of us who love houses.

ReubenL

at 00:52 on September 29th, 2009

Just looking at the picture I know it was the famous Frank Lloyd Wright's house Fallingwater. This house is outside of Pittsburgh, is built on top of a waterfall, and in keeping with what was Wright's organic architecture, it was built in congruence with its surroundings. Fallingwater photos are beautiful – and the design is incredible. It's been open to public tours for some time, but there is an overnight stay package available, for about $1200. It was really once a lifetime memory, so I’m thinking to go see this.