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FOR RELEASE ON: February 12, 2015 Contact: Mary F. Roberts, Executive Director Martin House Restoration Corporation 716-856-3858 (office) 716-440-6250 (cell) MARTIN HOUSE ANNOUNCES SPRING TRIP TO FALLINGWATER The Martin House Restoration Corporation is offering a weekend travel package to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob in Pennsylvania on June 6-7, 2015. This package includes one night’s accommodations at the Omni William Penn in downtown Pittsburgh, motor coach transportation, tours, lunch and gratuities, and a reception at the Omni featuring a lively conversation with Fallingwater’s Director of Preservation. Fallingwater is the home that Wright designed for Pittsburgh retail mogul Edgar J. Kaufmann and his family as a mountain retreat. Perched over a cascading stream, this is one of Wright’s most iconic masterpieces. Neighboring Kentuck Knob is a signature example of Wright’s Usonian style of architecture. Appearing to grow out of a hill, this one-story residence is designed on a hexagonal module and constructed from native sandstone and Tidewater red cypress blending seamlessly within the natural surroundings. The Pittsburgh metropolitan area is also home to a number of buildings conceived by two of Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship apprentices, Cornelia Brierly and Peter Berndtson. This excursion will include an insider’s tour of a selection of private residences designed by these two pioneering architects. The price per person is: $495/$460 members (double occupancy) and $585/$550 members (single occupancy). For information and reservations, please call 716-856-3858 or visit www.darwinmartinhouse.org. ABOUT THE MARTIN HOUSE COMPLEX The Martin House Complex, designed and built from 1903-05, is considered by Wright scholars to be a significant turning point in the evolution of the Prairie house concept. The original complex consisted of the main Martin House, pergola, conservatory and carriage house, the Barton House and a gardener’s cottage, totaling nearly 32,000 square feet. Wright called the Martin House his “opus,” and had its plans tacked above his drafting board for decades. Reconstruction of the pergola, conservatory and carriage house was completed in early 2007 in the most ambitious restoration of demolished Wright buildings ever undertaken. The Martin House Restoration Corporation is a New York not-for-profit corporation founded in 1992. It has a 30-member board of directors and approximately 400 active volunteers. The historic Martin House site is open for tours year round. More information about this National Historic Landmark, including tour information, can be found at www.darwinmartinhouse.org # # # .

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