The Most Popular Somerset, PA Attractions

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

One of the Greatest Architectural Triumphs of the 20th Century

Edgar Kaufmann was the founder of Pittsburgh's famous department store Kaufmann's and a longtime friend of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. As a prominent Pittsburgh family, the Kaufmann's were widely known as patrons of the arts and had a keen interest in architecture and design.

During the 1930s Edgar Kaufmann, Sr. and his wife Liliane began working with Frank Lloyd Wright on designing a new home to build at their weekend retreat at Bear Run, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was built partially over a waterfall in a way that allowed the waterfall to pass through and under the family home, hence its name: Fallingwater.

The contemporary design and the home's unity with nature, as characterized Wright's work, was called by Time Magazine Wright's most beautiful work. It is also listed among Smithsonian's list of 28 places to visit before you die. In 1966 it was deemed a National Historic Landmark and in 1991 members of the American Institute of Architects name it the "best all-time work of American architecture."

In 1964 the Kaufmann Residence opened to the public as a museum and hosts 150,000 visitors every year. Edgar Kaufmann, Jr, who also studied under Frank Lloyd Wright prior to taking a position in the family business, is quoted as saying, "[Wright] understood that people were creatures of nature, hence an architecture which conformed to nature would conform to what was basic in people." Visit this spectacular home and piece of American history only 32 miles from Comfort Inn Somerset.