and the façade is constructed of local sandstone slabs that create a visual kinship with its environment. Critics raved after Fallingwater opened three years later, with Time magazine calling it ...

Architects revere Fallingwater, not only for its extraordinary ... Wright used two materials, concrete and sandstone that was quarried on the property, for the structure and the exterior and ...

Fallingwater's sandstone was quarried about 500 feet from the waterfall. Glass and steel came from Pittsburgh. The fourth material, concrete, was poured on-site. Laborers were also local ...

Fallingwater is wondrous to be sure ... the bare essentials — rough-cut stone flooring and walls (the Pottsville sandstone was quarried on site), a few concrete walls finished to look like ...

to the woods of Pennsylvania.) Fallingwater’s sandstone floors, cement-and-stone construction and walls of single-pane windows would make it perpetually cold and damp; its kitchen, like those in ...

The goal is Fallingwater, a house with its famous waterfall ... To a desert rat from New Mexico this sandstone building that unites art and nature isn’t a weekend home or even a mansion.

But Fallingwater isn’t Wright’s only work in the Laurel Highlands. Kentuck Knob, 10km southwest and completed in 1956, is a grand Usonian home of red cypress and native sandstone. As with ...

The house rests on sandstone bedrock of the Homewood sandstone, a Middle Pennsylvanian unit within the upper Pottsville Formation. At Fallingwater, the Homewood sandstone is interpreted to fill an ...