Fallingwater
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Fallingwater
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| Location | Mill Run, Pennsylvania |
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| Nearest city | Uniontown |
| Coordinates | 39°54′22″N 79°28′5″W / 39.90611°N 79.46806°WCoordinates: 39°54′22″N 79°28′5″W / 39.90611°N 79.46806°W |
| Built | 1936–1939 |
| Architect | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Architectural style | Modern architecture |
| Visitation | about 135,000 |
| NRHP Reference # | 74001781 |
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| Added to NRHP | July 23, 1974 |
| Designated NHL | May 23, 1966 |
| Designated PHMC | May 15, 1994 |
Fallingwater or the Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. The home was built partly over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains. The house was designed as a weekend home for the family of Liliane Kaufmann and her husband, Edgar J. Kaufmann, owner of Kaufmann's department store.
Time cited it after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job"; it is listed among Smithsonian's Life List of 28 places "to visit before you die". It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. In 1991, members of the American Institute of Architects named the house the "best all-time work of American architecture" and in 2007, it was ranked 29th on the list of America's Favorite Architecture according to the AIA.
At age 67, Frank Lloyd Wright was given the opportunity to design and construct three buildings. His three works of the late 1930s—Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin, and the Herbert Jacobs house in Madison, Wisconsin—brought him back into prominence in the architectural community.
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