Frank Lloyd Wrights House on Kentuck Knob

by Donald Hoffmann

Book Overview

This is the first thorough guide to the design and history of "Kentuck," a splendid mountain house in southwestern Pennsylvania designed in 1953-1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright. Inspired by Fallingwater, the famous house only seven miles away that Wright designed above the waterfalls of Bear Run, local businessman I. N. Hagan and his wife, Bernardine, commissioned the 86-year-old Wright to design this home. Kentuck, constructed on an isolated knoll, or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822941198
• ISBN13: 9780822941194
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 7.4"