Puzzle Description:

frank lloyd wright's 'falling water', bear run, pennsylvania

#1: Billie Patterson (bpat) on Jul 10, 2011

Glad you told us what it is. I'd never have guessed. Good puzzle, though.

you said what i was going to say bpat

That is a good guess. I hope that Sarah sees this before I try again. LOL

i lived about 2 blockds from one of his designs in oak park, ill...nice job Anna

You won! Excellent puzzle!

omg! thx! nice choice for a picture on the wall, Sarah! :-)

I've been to oak park twice, Tom. I'm a total flw groupie. :-) never been to falling water, tho' :-(

Wow! Nice picture for a wall, Sarah. Congratulations, Annalivia.

http://wishurhere.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/falling-water-01.jpg

What a treat to come home from Florida to find all of these delightful puzzles. Falling Water was my guess, after about the 3rd solve. My dad also has a picture of Falling Water on his wall. :)

Not to nit-pick (but I do it so well.... ; } ) but according to google it is in Mill Run, PA. I wanted to look at is and could not find a bear run, PA.

Hi Jean, the house is between the towns of Mill Run and Ohiopyle but uses Mill Run as the address. The name of the stream is Bear Run and I think there is a small town named that. Sorry for the confusion.
http://fallingwater.org/

Excellent impression of Falling Water, especially the red windows. And the puzzle was a lot of fun to solve. Thanks.

(de-lurking for a moment...)
Annalivia, I grew up just a few miles away from Fallingwater and have been there more times than I can count (as a matter of fact, in two weeks I'm taking my 10 year old on a road trip for him to see it in person for the first time). I wanted to tell you that there is a SECOND Frank Lloyd Wright house only 3 miles away from Fallingwater which also offers tours. It's called Kentuck Knob, and most people don't even know it exists. It's still privately owned by a wealthy Brit who bought it from the Hagen's, the original owners. He's rarely there, so tours are offered most of the time.

The two houses really complement each other well, as Fallingwater was a radical new direction in FLW's designs and marked the first foray into his idealized usonian concepts (even though - unlike the usonians - Fallingwater was a large home for a wealth client), and Kentuck Knob was one of his last commissions (he never even visited the site), and shows how the ideas he first played with at FW evolved and matured.

www.kentuckknob.com

amyfaith, I am envious! :-), but happy for you and for your son who gets to see this marvel of architecture with his mom!

thanks for the info on kentuck knob!

A beautiful place and puzzle!

It was a fun solve. The image is very abstract. With the explanation, the image becomes very clear.

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