History & local legend
Fallingwater was the weekend retreat of Pittsburgh department-store owners Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house above Bear Run in Fayette County, placing its rooms and terraces around the waterfall that gives it its name.
A quieter story about the house appeared in Kevin Gray’s September 2001 New York Times Magazine feature. Gray recounted a report that a former night watchman had seen a woman in a white nightgown in the main bedroom. She stood looking toward the falls and did not speak.
Gray raised Liliane Kaufmann as a possible identity for the figure.
