Fallingwater Offers First Tours of 2007 Beginning March 3

(Mill Run, Pennsylvania, February 28, 2007). After a two-month, weather-motivated hiatus, Fallingwater will open its doors on weekends beginning Saturday, March 3. The Frank Lloyd Wright masterwork will be open daily beginning Tuesday, March 13, 2007.

Beginning March 13, Fallingwater’s daily regular guided tours are offered Tuesdays through Sundays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Prices for a regular tour are $16 for adults and $10 for youths ages 6-12.

The daily 8:30 a.m. In-Depth tour ($55 per person) offers a detailed view of the house with photography and access to areas not available on the regular tour.

New tours are being developed for this 43rd season that will give visitors time to linger and reflect.

For more information on these tours and other new programs, visit www.fallingwater.org or call the Visitor Services office at 724-329-8501.

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About Fallingwater and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy:
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) preserves Fallingwater®, the masterpiece home designed in 1935 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar J. Kaufmann in Mill Run, Pennsylvania. In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann jr. (sic) entrusted Fallingwater to the Conservancy.  As a symbol of living in harmony with nature, Fallingwater offers a wide variety of educational programs to its more than 135,000 annual visitors.   Since its founding in 1932, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has protected more than 212,000 acres of natural lands in Pennsylvania, restored watersheds and saved natural habitats for a diversity of life and uses.  Each year, WPC also partners with 5,000 volunteers and dozens of community organizations and businesses to plant and maintain 135 gardens and greening projects in 20 western Pennsylvania counties.