[PennsylvaniaMom]

Actually, Flood Plain only affect us little people. If you can pay/bond the property you build (long a stream, creek, river). The problem w/the 'stream running thru' FLW design was the affect of water (erosion) along w/poor drainage (I remember reading that FLW was an artist, and a 'visionary' not necessarily a 'real-world' engineer.) That coupled with the ice issues that Pennsylvania winters bring took their toll on the Fallingwater property. Millions have been spent (by the conservancy) to re-engineer the propery.

Just as an aside, alot of celebrity types fly in and 'rent' the space for a dinner party, etc. They fly into Labtrobe (private jets) and get chauffeured out there (to Mill Run...very beautiful rural area). One of the most recent was Angelina Jolie arranging for a small birthday dinner for Brad Pitt.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

“Just as an aside, alot of celebrity types fly in and ‘rent’ the space for a dinner party, etc. They fly into Labtrobe (private jets) and get chauffeured out there (to Mill Run...very beautiful rural area).”

I try to do it at least a couple of times a week.

[HamiltonJay]

The builders added far more steel reinforcement than FLW called for... because it was blindingly obvious that it would collapse under its own weight rapidly by his design.

Even with this steel added behind the architects back its still suffering cracks and damage due to being underengineered.

Its a beautiful property, but he grossly underengineered it. He was driven completely by estetics.