A Kentuck Knob PhotoJournal

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On Friday, the hubster and I took a day trip down the National Road to visit a National Historic Landmark, Kentuck Knob. It's a home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, built in the 1950s for I.N. and Bernadine Hagan. It's one of the last homes completed by Wright. 

The property is now owned by Peter and Hayat Palumbo, but is open for tours. Palumbo is an avid collector of art and sculpture, so when we first arrived we took a walk around the grounds to see some of the contemporary sculptures and some other interesting pieces like these birdhouses and telelphone boxes.

I was most interested in the piece of the Berlin Wall.

The house is set just below the crest of a hill and is based on a hexagon shape. It has an open floor plan and lots of windows too. We walked around the outside of the house, then joined our tour guide for the in-depth tour inside the house. (Because the home is privately owned, no indoor photos are allowed.)

This is the courtyard - or driveway, really. All pea gravel. There's carport to the right.

View of the front entry from the carport:

This is pretty special - it's a red tile with Frank Lloyd Wright's signature. 

No photos of the inside of the house, but some from the patio along the great room. These hexagon cutouts in the overhang are beautiful and allow more light into the house.

This is the patio on the other side of the house, and those doors lead into the dining area.

This wing of the house is where the bedrooms are.

The view from on top of the hill is spectacular.

Another sculpture I liked was this one, a flower transforming into a fan. I don't remember the exact title or the artist, unfortunately.

After our tour of Kentuck Knob, we also stopped in at a couple of spots at neighboring Ohiopyle State Park. The Natural Waterslide area was so interesting and would be a lot of fun to explore further!

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