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Ohiopyle State Park and Fallingwater were made for each other, Gov. William Scranton told invited guests at a Fayette County "acceptance ceremony" 50 years ago this month.
Scranton was the featured speaker at the Oct. 29, 1963, event to mark Edgar Kaufmann Jr.'s gift of his deceased parents' summer home 45 miles southeast of Pittsburgh to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.
"The Conservancy also received $500,000 in trust for maintenance of the 500 acres and grants of $30,000 per year for five years for support of an educational program," according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story on Oct. 30. The money, which came from the Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Foundation, is equivalent in modern currency to $3.75 million for the maintenance fund and $225,000 annually for educational efforts.
Construction on the iconic building, designed by Frank Lloyd...