7/7/15 - Confluence, PA

Today we drove to Fallingwater.  This is a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1937 for a Pittsburgh businessman.  It is built partially over a waterfall using cantilever construction techniques. It is widely considered to be an architectural masterpiece.  It was designed to blend in with the natural surroundings.  No pictures were allowed inside the house.

 

After taking the tour we went into the town of Ohiopyle and had lunch.  This is a center for whitewater rafting on the Youghiogheny River.  This afternoon we went to the laundry and washed clothes.  We were going to have dinner at the VFW but they ran out.  We drove to the dam before returning back to the Casita.  If the dam breaks we are goners.  I fixed supper and we sat outside for about 15 minutes and it started to rain so we went inside and watched the old Alfred Hitchcock movie, “Dial M for Murder”.