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Kentuck Knob, also known as the Hagan House, is a residence designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in rural Stewart Township near the village of Chalk Hill, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000 for its architecture
Sculpture outside Kentuck Knob
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Home
Sculpture was purchased by current home owner.
Near Fallingwater Mill Run Pa
Nov '15
I think a lot of us are now wishing we could bring back the "colorful leaves" part of autumn. That phase lasts for such a short time.
Kentuck Knob view. I was told by my friend Steve that there was a foot of snow up there only a few days after this picture was taken.
Nov '15
View from near Frank Lloyd Wright's Kentuck Knob. Looking at the Yough River gorge.
Chalk Hill Pa
The Hagan House began in 1953 when the Hagans, owners of a major dairy company in Western Pennsylvania, purchased 80 acres (320,000 m2) of mountain land east of their native Uniontown, the county seat. As friends of the Kaufmanns, owners of nearby Fallingwater on Bear Run, the Hagans asked their architect Frank Lloyd Wright, then 86 years old, to design a deluxe Usonian home for them. The house was completed in 1956, and the Hagans lived at Kentuck Knob for almost 30 years.
In 1986 Lord Palumbo of London, UK bought the property for $600,000 as a vacation home. Since 1996, the Palumbo family has balanced their occupancy with a public tour program, a method of historic property management more common to their native Britain than to the United States.
The Palumbos added a sculpture meadow to the site near the base of the mountain, where 35 sculptures by artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Harry Bertoia, Claes Oldenburg, Ray Smith, Michael Warren and Sir Anthony Caro are displayed. Found art pieces include a French pissoir, red British telephone boxes, and a large, vertically upright concrete slab from the Berlin Wall. The meadow is reached by a walking path through woods from either the house or the visitors center.
The name Kentuck Knob is credited to the late eighteenth-century settler David Askins, who intended to move from Western Pennsylvania to Kentucky, but then reconsidered and remained at this very property, naming his tract of land Little Kentuck. It subsequently became known the Kentuck District of Stewart Township, one of the county's several rural mountainous townships. Ever since the summit of the property has been called Kentuck Knob.
Added to NRHP:May 16, 2000
Designated NHL:May 16, 2000
Happy Fence Friday! Just got back from my second trip back East. This fencing was captured atKentuck Knob inPennsylvania.
Kentuck Knob, also known as the Hagan House, is a residence designed by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in rural Stewart Township near the village of Chalk Hill, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA, 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000 for its architecture. Wikipedia
View of the Youghiogheny River valley a short walk from the house designed in 1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright for I.N. Hagan, Kentuck Knob is named for the hill on which it was built in western Pennsylvania not far from Wright's masterwork, Fallingwater. Kentuck Knob is actually built into the side of the hill and is considered to be one of his Usonian designs.
Designed in 1954 by Frank Lloyd Wright for I.N. Hagan, Kentuck Knob is named for the hill on which it was built in western Pennsylvania not far from Wright's masterwork, Fallingwater. Kentuck Knob is actually built into the side of the hill and is considered to be one of his Usonian designs.