Sunday, August 26, 2001

Odometer 450

Guess where I went today? That's right, I drove all the way out to the Falling Water house in western Pennsylvania. I was planning on going riding on a rail trail out by exit 9, but when I got close I realized that Falling Water was very close (okay, within an hour) and decided to go there instead.

I left York around 8am and got out to Falling Water right around noontime (I stopped for lunch at the Summit Diner in Somerset, bought a t-shirt too, right off of I-76 exit 10). Since I came by myself, I was able to get in on the very next tour group (they needed to fill a single slot), even without having a reservation. The tour started around 12:30p and took about 90 minutes to tour the entire house and the guest house. After the tour, you're free to wander the grounds for as long as you like. (Admission fee was $15 for an adult.)


Falling Water is currently undergoing renovations (and has been from 1997), but they expect to complete the renovations by spring of 2002.

Most of the furniture in the house was designed by FLW and built-in as part of the house. But in the passageway connecting the main house to the stairs up to the guest house were a pair of beautiful Japanese style furniture. One was about 3 feet wide and about 6 1/2 feet tall, the other piece was about 18 inches tall and about 5 or 6 feet long. Both had the Japanese style circular metal work for the latch plates and the Japanese style metal work on the corners and cross pieces. (I'll have to check this for sure when I get home.)

Right now, it's threatening to rain and it's hot and humid so I'm dripping wet as I sit in the shade writing this. (Now to find a cell signal so that I can post it. This was posted at a resturant outside of exit 9 on the PA Turnpike, I posted it at 4pm, don't know why it says 5pm on the timestamp.)

posted by Wuphon's at 5:04 PM