Kentuck Knob
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Isaac Newton and Bernardine Hagan House
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| Location | 723 Kentuck Road, Chalk Hill, Pennsylvania |
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| Nearest city | Pittsburgh |
| Coordinates | 39°52′9″N 79°31′11″W / 39.86917°N 79.51972°WCoordinates: 39°52′9″N 79°31′11″W / 39.86917°N 79.51972°W |
| Built | 1953-56 |
| Architect | Frank Lloyd Wright |
| Architectural style | Usonian |
| NRHP Reference # | 00000708 |
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| Added to NRHP | May 16, 2000 |
| Designated NHL | May 16, 2000 |
Kentuck Knob, also known as the Hagan House, is a residence designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in rural Stewart Township near the village of Chalk Hill, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Pittsburgh. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000 for its architecture.
Kentuck Knob is a one-story dwelling situated on Chestnut Ridge, the western-most ridge of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountains. The house stands at the end of a driveway south of Pennsylvania State Route 2010. The home is recessed into the southern side of Kentuck Knob’s 2,050-foot (620 m) peak with a mountainous 79 acres (320,000 m2) surrounding it that originally composed a farm. The Hagans, I.N. and Bernardine, planted much of the hilltop property with tree seedlings to provide both privacy and a wind break. The mountain summit offers a sweeping view of the Youghiogheny River gorge as well as surrounding hills and farmland. The house is only four miles south of Wright's most famous house, Fallingwater (1935), also in Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands region.
Wright employed tidewater red cypress, glass, and native sandstone to build the home, and capped it with a copper roof at a cost of $96,000.
At 86, and hard at work on the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and about 12 residential homes, Wright said he could “shake it (Kentuck Knob) out of his sleeve at will”, never even setting foot on the site, except for a short visit during the construction phase. This was one of the last homes to be completed by Wright.
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