The purpose of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s operation of Fallingwater is:
- to preserve, maintain and make available for public education and appreciation Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece, “Fallingwater”
- to demonstrate by the example of Fallingwater the powerful result that can be achieved through the harmonious union of man’s work with nature
- to maintain in Fallingwater its character as a weekend home of the period it was occupied by its owners, Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann (occupied 1938 to 1955) and their son, Edgar Kaufmann, jr. (occupied 1938 to 1963)
- to preserve its original furnishings, art and household objects, exhibiting them as naturally as possible in what is now a public museum
- to conserve the land and watershed into which Fallingwater was designed to fit, as a continuing source of inspiration through a 4,600 acre nature reserve intended for both recreation and study
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy believes that Fallingwater is more than the sum of its parts: the architect, the client, the architecture, the art, the land and the period. It is the inspired coming together of these parts that makes Fallingwater a great work worthy of preservation.
Fallingwater works closely with other local, regional, and national institutions and organizations including: The Pennsylvania Federation of Museums, The Pennsylvania Coalition of Independent Museums, The Pittsburgh Architectural Tourism Committee, The Greater Pittsburgh Museum Council; Laurel Highlands Tourism; the Greater Pittsburgh Convention Bureau; the Pennsylvania Rural Arts Alliance; the Pennsylvania Department of Tourism, and the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.