Frank Lloyd Wright homes

We had made reservations for Frank Lloyd Wright's, an organic architec that designed and had built over 1000 homes and businesses (the Guggenheimer Art Museum in New York) in the US, homes for Saturday tours. The first home is owned by Lord Palumbo of England, he is the second owner of Kentuck Knob. Could only take photos outside of both homes, sorry. We started out bad, our 20 minute drive ended up 1 hour. We missed our first tour by 10 minutes but they let us in on the next one. And things got worse after this tour, we waited for the shuttle bus to get us back to the visitor center (they don't allow anyone to walk up to it or drive to it) which was being driven by a very old man. So, called Fallingwater (our other FLLW home) and said we were late and what can they do to accomodate us - they said not a problem. They said they would fit us in within a half an hour after we arrived.


Thankfully Fallingwater was only a 15 minute ride away and they took us into the next tour. One thing that I kept saying to the tour guide - a maintenance headache! We saw alot of signs of deterioration from the water below (freeze/thaw) and from the cantalevers of all the levels - so much weight and stress. I read that in the first month that the owners moved in after it was built, there were 50 leaks that had to be addressed. And Dave and I complain about one leak in the condo! Ugh, shame on us. Both homes very impressive in architecture and lifestyle, however Dave and I still have Taliesan West in Scottsdale AZ as our favorite so far. We chuckle that our condo is kinda FLLW in that we don't have alot of furniture, have wide open spaces, try to incorporate the window views of Lake Erie as much as possible with furniture placement, etc. Guess we have to make it a point to see the Pennfield Home in Willoughby - you can even rent this home for yourself for a price!