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Frank Lloyd Wright: Fallingwater (Adults)

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In celebration of Historic Preservation Month, Timothy Totten discusses one of America's most famous and treasured buildings, Fallingwater.

Utilizing photos and dozens of first-hand accounts from clients and Wright’s apprentices, Master Storyteller Timothy Totten weaves together the fascinating story of the design and building of one of America’s most famous and treasured buildings.

Fallingwater is a house museum in Stewart Township in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania. Designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run stream. The house was developed as a weekend retreat for Liliane and Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr., the owner of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh. Wright was hired in 1934 to design the house, which was completed in 1937; a guest wing was finished in 1939. The Kaufmanns' son, Edgar Kaufmann Jr., deeded the house in 1963 to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC), which turned it into a museum. The house was renovated in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Timothy Totten has been speaking to groups in locations all over the United States for several years. Tim has studied Frank Lloyd Wright since 1988 and has visited or spoken in more than 300 Wright buildings and homes.

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