Falling Water and Kentuck Knob

So Saturday my roommates Kathryn and Corinna and Corinna's co-worker Jocelyn and I went up to Pennsylvania to see the architect Frank Lloyd Wright's homes. It was a lot of fun to see how the houses were built right into the mountain side and incorporated the land around into the home itself. When most people would see a huge boulder in the middle of where they would like to build a house, they would say it's a problem, but Mr. Wright said it was a challenge. In the Falling Water house he used the boulder as the center-most part of the house, and it's completely built around the boulder. It was awesome!

This is the front door of Kentuck Knob. The house is completely made of stone with flagstone on the floor throughout the house. He said it made it so that you could have warm feet and a cool head. I touched the flagstone with my foot-it was cold, so whatever.

We weren't allowed to take anypictures inside, but it was really cool.

Proof that the house is made of stone-an 18 foot drop off from the living room.

Two views of the land where Kentuck Knob is built. These pictures don't do justice. It was BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Falling water from afar. It's amazing just to see it.

There is a terrace off every room of the house.

This is a plunge pool where the residents (when they still lived there) dipped every morning as a nice way to wake up. Talk about brisk in the winter!

The four of us in front of the house-literally. The lady taking the picture didn't try to get the house in the view. Oh well!