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The last is an Usonian house designed by Wright once belonging to the Duncan family from Lisle, Illinois which had been painstaking dismantled from its original location (developers there had slated for the house to be torn down) and re-assembled brick by brick at Polymath Park in 2007. Two are original to their location and were designed by Peter Berndtson, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright’s, and built as summer houses for the Balther and Blum families, successful businessmen from Pittsburgh who had bought the land together with the intent of developing it into a resort community for the well-to-do of Pittsburgh. Polymath Park is comprised of three houses. Little wonder the rich and powerful of Pittsburgh had made these hills their vacationing grounds. Driving through the Allegheny Mountains felt like entering upon an enchanted winter wonderland. It had snowed the night before and snow still glisten from the tree tops.
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I capped off my weekend Wright trip last April with a stop at Polymath Park, a half-hour drive from Fallingwater.