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“I thought you would place the house near the waterfall, not over it,” Edgar J. Kaufmann said to his architect. “E.J., I want you to live with the waterfall, not just look at it,” countered Frank Lloyd Wright to his client.

Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence or famously known as the Fallingwater, is designed by  American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania.

The house was built 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It was created partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1.

Edgar Kaufman’s Sr. was a successful Pittsburgh business man who founded the Kaufmann’s department store.

At the time of its construction, the house cost a total of $155,000.[18] broken down as follows:[19] house $75,000, finishing and furnishing $22,000, guest house, garage and servants quarters $50,000, architect’s fee $8,000. Accounting for inflation, this translates to about $2.3 million in 2007 dollars[20].

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