You Can Be King of the Castle at Fallingwater

Okay architecture nerds, it's time to get excited. Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece custom residence built over an active waterfall in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, is open for more than mere museum business. You can live there for a day if you'd like.

If you've got $1,195 to donate to the foundation, you can become part of a group of eight guests to be given a private tour of the home. You'll spend unsupervised time exploring the structure and its grounds, and sleep in a nearby house on the property. This sort of access is unprecedented at Fallingwater, where hour-long tours are also routinely available for $18. For those of us who want to feel easy living the way Wright intended, the dream is now a real possibility.

For more information on reserving your spot in the program, visit Insight Onsite.

via DesignCrave

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This is awesome, but it's already been posted:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/architecture/frank-lloyd-wrights-fallingwater-yours-for-1195-097034

I'm sure one of these posts will end up highlighted at the end of the week as well. Can't we go back to recycling posts after a couple of weeks?

I generally don't mind the "recycling" since I choose to read the general AT page instead of my regional one. However, it's odd to see AT adding bloggers when too many regions post the same articles or seem to scraping the bottom of barrell of post ideas.

This post is a bit misleading. You're actually registering for a 3-day conference. From the linked site:

Because this program is intended to help a small group focus on personal inquiry, Insight Onsite at Fallingwater is limited to eight people per session. The pricing for this all-inclusive experience is $1195 per person for double occupancy and $1595 for single occupancy. Guests will reside in simple on-site housing at Bear Run Nature Reserve – the 5,000-acre natural area that is home to Fallingwater – in a house that includes four bedrooms, each with a private bath.

If this is too expensive/too structured, you can stay in the Duncan House which is one of Wright's prefabs. It's located in Polymath Park Resort, relatively close by to Fallingwater, and there are also two houses designed by some apprentices of Wright that you can stay in as well.

My company had an overnight retreat there, I got to sleep in the master bedroom of the Duncan House and it was fantastic.

What makes anyone think that they'll be able to stay in Fallingwater for only 2 grand a night? Let's be realistic people! Fallingwater is designed by an American icon in the architecture and design world. If you really want to be king or queen of the castle for a night, it's going to take a hell of a lot more than 2 grand.

I went on one of the three-hour tours a few years ago - it's pretty breathtaking. But guess what? It smells weird. Has anyone else experienced that?

You don't stay in Fallingwater, you only get to hang out in it, you sleep elsewhere on the grounds.

I'll take my $18 tour and rather spend over 1k to sleep a night in some amazing hotel room ( with fabulous decor), instead of sleeping at some on site house nearby.

I grew up in a FLW house... if we'd thought people would pay to sleep there for a night, things might have gone differently! Ha.

Sophia
www.stomachfoot.etsy.com

I don't know. The building cover up on such a beautiful　scenery. What a waste.

Another NAY vote for recycling blogs ... in the same day, no less! Hello, Coordinating Editor??

Actually saw the best Frank Llloyd Wright exhibit at the Gugg. earlier this year (I prefer his Taliesin property to Fallingwater but it's still gorgeous!)

Erin
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As Indy Jeffrey says, this post is a bit misleading.

The post says "you can live there for a day if you'd like". The website says you'll reside ON-SITE for THREE days, not in Fallingwater itself and not just for one day.

The post says "You'll spend unsupervised time exploring the structure and its grounds." The website, however, says you'll have "time to explore the house on one’s own." That doesn't automatically equate with "unsupervised" and it says nothing about exploring the grounds on your own.

Having said that, though maybe a bit pricey, the cost is not simply $1,195 for a one night's stay.

Consideration needs to be given to the fact that this is a THREE DAY ALL INCLUSIVE seminar that includes the seminar, overnight lodging, and meals. That comes to just under $400 PER DAY which is really not all that bad to be able to spend three days at Fallingwater with the director of Fallingwater and a very small group of others who are very passionate about it .

A good friend of mine built this house into a cake for a cake challenge on FoodNetwork.... awesome...

Not worth the money to me, but the house is gorgeous! And, the setting if beautiful.

Regarding staying at the Duncan House at Polymath Park, the Balter house is far better and less likely to be booked up. There are two kitchens in the Duncan house because they don't want you using the original and it's grounds are a mess. The house is also cold and bland. The Balter is warm and cozy, is in the woods, has a huge fireplace, and will accommodate more people. Take a look at the photoset below (contains pics of Fallingwater, and the Duncan and Balter houses): http://www.flickr.com/photos/evanrose/sets/72157603165096508/