Fallingwater
The house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 over a waterfall on Bear Run Creek, one of the best-known works of 20th-century architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Pensilvânia · the United States
In the destination Pittsburgh and Fallingwater.
In the photo: Waterfalls of the Youghiogheny River, in Ohiopyle
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The city
A small village of a few streets inside Ohiopyle State Park, in the Laurel Highlands, beside the waterfalls of the Youghiogheny River. It is a base for rafting, cycling on the Great Allegheny Passage and for Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses: Fallingwater, about 8 km away, and Kentuck Knob, about 10 km away. Fort Necessity, site of the 1754 battle, is nearby.
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The local experience
The house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 over a waterfall on Bear Run Creek, one of the best-known works of 20th-century architecture and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Frank Lloyd Wright house from the 1950s, on a hilltop near Fallingwater, with a hexagonal modular plan and a sculpture garden.
State park in the Youghiogheny River valley, with waterfalls, rafting rapids, natural stone waterslides and the Great Allegheny Passage bike trail.
The site of the 1754 battle in which the young George Washington surrendered to French forces at the start of the French and Indian War, with the fort reconstructed.