Fallingwater
Fallingwater is a house museum in Stewart Township in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania, United States. Designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, it is built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run stream.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
Photo: Jeffrey Neal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Pennsylvania
- Also known as: “Kaufmann Residence”
- Address: Springfield Township, PA
- Roof shape: flat
- Wheelchair access: no
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ohiopyle and Mill Run.
Ohiopyle
Photo: Euelbenul, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ohiopyle is a lovely resort town along the Youghiogheny River in the Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania. The town is surrounded by the Ohiopyle State Park, with its beautiful scenery and many recreational opportunities.
Mill Run
Hamlet
Springfield Township is a township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,731 at the 2020 census. The Connellsville Area School District serves the township. Mill Run is situated 3 miles north of Fallingwater.
Fallingwater
- Categories: single-family detached home, historic house museum, house, building, tourism, historic site, and historic building
- Location: Stewart Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.90623° or 39° 54′ 22″ northLongitude
-79.46797° or 79° 28′ 5″ westInception
1939Levels
4Operator
Western Pennsylvania ConservancyOpen location code
87F2WG4J+FROpenStreetMap ID
way 354728127OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
roof-shape=flatOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=noWikidata ID
Q463179
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Fallingwater” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيت الشلال”
- Arabic: “دار المياه الساقطة”
- Arabic: “فيلا فولينوتر”
- Armenian: “Տուն ջրվեժի վերևում”
- Armenian: “Տուն՝ ջրվեժի վերևում”
- Asturian: “Casa de la catarata”
- Balinese: “Fallingwater”
- Bashkir: “Шарлауыҡ өҫтөндәге йорт”
- Basque: “Fallingwater”
- Basque: “Ur-jauziko etxea”
- Belarusian: “Фолінгўотэр”
- Bengali: “ফলিংওয়াটার”
- Bulgarian: “Къща над водопада”
- Catalan: “Casa de la Cascada”
- Catalan: “Casa Kauffmann”
- Catalan: “Falling water”
- Central Kurdish: “تاڤگەماڵ”
- Chinese: “流水别墅”
- Chinese: “落水山庄”
- Chinese: “落水山莊”
- Croatian: “Fallingwater”
- Czech: “Fallingwater (Pensylvánie)”
- Czech: “Fallingwater”
- Danish: “Fallingwater”
- Dutch: “Fallingwater”
- Esperanto: “Akvofalejo”
- Finnish: “Fallingwater”
- French: “Edgar Kaufmann house”
- French: “Fallingwater house”
- French: “Fallingwater”
- French: “Kaufmann House”
- French: “Maison de la cascade”
- French: “maison sur la cascade”
- French: “Maison sur la cascade”
- French: “Villa de la cascade”
- French: “Villa sur la cascade”
- Galician: “Casa da Cascada”
- Galician: “Casa da fervenza”
- Galician: “Fallingwater”
- Georgian: “ფოლინგუოტერი”
- German: “Falling Water House”
- German: “Fallingwater (Pensylvánie)”
- German: “Fallingwater”
- Greek: “Fallingwater”
- Greek: “Κατοικία Falling Water”
- Guianese Creole French: “Kaz asou kaskad”
- Hebrew: “Fallingwater”
- Hebrew: “בית המפל”
- Hebrew: “הבית על האשד”
- Hebrew: “פולינגווטר”
- Hungarian: “Fallingwater”
- Hungarian: “Vízesés-ház”
- Indonesian: “Rumah Fallingwater”
- Italian: “Casa Kaufmann”
- Italian: “Casa sulla cascata”
- Italian: “FallingWater - La casa della cascata”
- Italian: “La casa sulla cascata”
- Japanese: “カウフマン邸”
- Japanese: “落水荘”
- Kazakh: “Сарқырыма үстіндегі үй”
- Korean: “낙수장”
- Latin: “Fallingwater”
- Latvian: “Fallingwater”
- Latvian: “Māja uz ūdenskrituma”
- Latvian: “Māja virs ūdenskrituma”
- Livvi: “Fallingwater”
- Malay: “Fallingwater”
- Malayalam: “ഫാളിംഗ് വാട്ടർ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fallingwater”
- Norwegian: “Fallingwater”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ostau de la Cascada”
- Persian: “خانه آبشار”
- Persian: “خانهٔ آبشار”
- Persian: “خانه ابشار”
- Persian: “خانهٔ ابشار”
- Persian: “فالینگ واتر”
- Persian: “فالینگواتر”
- Polish: “Dom nad wodospadem”
- Polish: “Fallingwater”
- Portuguese: “Casa da cascata”
- Portuguese: “Casa da Cascata”
- Portuguese: “Casa Kaufman”
- Portuguese: “Casa Kaufmann”
- Portuguese: “Fallingwater House”
- Portuguese: “Fallingwater”
- Romanian: “Vila Kaufmann”
- Russian: “Fallingwater”
- Russian: “Дом над водопадом”
- Russian: “Фоллинг-Уотер”
- Scots: “Fallingwater”
- Serbian: “Dom nad vodopadom”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fallingwater”
- Slovak: “Fallingwater”
- Slovenian: “Fallingwater”
- Spanish: “Casa de la cascada”
- Spanish: “Casa de la Cascada”
- Spanish: “Casa Kaufmann”
- Spanish: “Fallingwater”
- Swedish: “Falling Water”
- Swedish: “Fallingwater”
- Tamil: “ஃபாலிங்வாட்டர்”
- Thai: “ฟอลลิงวอเทอร์”
- Turkish: “Fallingwater”
- Turkish: “Kaufmann Evi”
- Turkish: “Şelale Evi”
- Ukrainian: “Будинок над водоспадом”
- Ukrainian: “Резиденція Кауфмана”
- Vietnamese: “Fallingwater”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fallingwater”
- Welsh: “Fallingwater”
- Western Panjabi: “فالنگواٹر”
- Yue Chinese: “落水山莊”
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