Visit to Fallingwater

For years I wanted to visit Fallingwater, the house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1936, when Wright was 68 years old, for Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. The sucker was built right over the waterfall. Cantilevered rooms extend over air without supporting beams.

Well, on Saturday, May 6, Paula and I drove to Fallingwater, which is between Mill Run and Ohiopyle southeast of Pittsburgh. The scenery once you get off the Interstate is enjoyable, and tree-filled. We had lunch in Ohiopyle, where we saw hundreds of folks with kayaks and canoes heading for the whitewater stretch of the Youghiogheny River. We toured the three Fallingwater levels, plus the guest house above it all, and the surrounding grounds.

The drive to Fallingwater takes about 3 hours each way, so we were able to leave Saturday morning and return Saturday evening.

~ John Olesky