2024 Best of Lake Erie: Weekend for Architecture Lovers
Plan your Frank Lloyd Wright road trip.
His mission: to create a new form of architecture centered on the Midwest landscape, redefining traditional ideas about what a home or space should or could be.
Here are three of our favorite Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes to tour.
1. Look down. Fallingwater was built over a waterfall with native sandstone. Located in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, this is the only Wright property open to the public with original furnishings still intact.
2. Dubbed the “jewel of the lake” thanks to its perch on a cliff overlooking Lake Erie, Graycliff was designed as a summer home in Derby, New York.
3. Martin House, a quintessential prairie-style house in Buffalo, is considered one of Wright’s greatest achievements. An ambitious renovation was completed in 2019.
Bonus Stop: Hagen History Center houses Wright’s office, which was relocated to Erie, Pennsylvania, and contains original artifacts. “We get Wright fans visiting us,” says executive director Caleb Pifer. “This is a way for us to tell his story and contextualize it.”
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