Fallingwater
A house by Frank Lloyd Wright built partly over a waterfall on the Bear Run stream, in the Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania. It was a weekend retreat for the Pittsburgh store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. and his wife Liliane, and has been open to visitors since 1963.
- Where
- Mill Run, Pennsylvania, United States
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 39.9064, -79.4681
Get the Fallingwater stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Fallingwater. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Pennsylvania volume with your photos and a note.
Near Fallingwater
Sri Venkateswara Temple 66 km
A temple to Lord Venkateswara in Penn Hills, outside Pittsburgh, built in the style of the great temple at Tirupati. It is the oldest Hindu temple in the United States built by Indian immigrants, and draws pilgrims from across the Northeast and Midwest.
New Vrindaban 100 km
An ISKCON community in the hills of West Virginia, founded in 1968 under the guidance of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and named after Vrindavan in India. Its centrepieces are the Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra Temple and Prabhupada's Palace of Gold.
Shenandoah National Park 181 km
A long, narrow national park along the Blue Ridge Mountains, with the Shenandoah Valley on one side and the Virginia Piedmont on the other. Skyline Drive follows the ridgeline for its whole length, and Hawksbill Mountain, its highest point, reaches 1,235 metres.
Gettysburg National Military Park 191 km
The fields, ridges and woods where the three-day Battle of Gettysburg was fought in July 1863, preserved across some 1,500 hectares. Monuments line its roads, and in the Soldiers' National Cemetery Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center 206 km
The National Air and Space Museum's huge hangar beside Dulles Airport, built for the aircraft and spacecraft too big for the museum on the Mall. Under one roof are the Space Shuttle Discovery, an SR-71 Blackbird, a Concorde and the Boeing 367-80.
Monticello 228 km
Thomas Jefferson's hilltop home outside Charlottesville, a house he designed himself and kept reworking for decades. The plantation around it was worked by enslaved people, whose lives the estate now presents alongside his, and the house appears on the American nickel.
Washington National Cathedral 233 km
An Episcopal cathedral modelled on the English Gothic of the late 14th century, begun in 1907 and only completed in 1990. It is the second largest church building in the United States, and a carved Darth Vader hides among the grotesques of its northwest tower.
Mahatma Gandhi Memorial 236 km
A bronze statue of Gandhi in mid-stride, on a small triangle of land along Massachusetts Avenue in front of the Embassy of India. A gift from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, it was dedicated in 2000 during a state visit by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
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Questions
Where is Fallingwater?
Fallingwater is in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, United States. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Sri Venkateswara Temple (66 km), New Vrindaban (100 km), Shenandoah National Park (181 km).
How do I get the Fallingwater stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Fallingwater and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Pennsylvania volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Fallingwater before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Pennsylvania volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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