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Fallingwater will reopen Tuesday for another season of public tours, giving visitors a glimpse not just of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's genius, but of exterior scaffolding under the cantilevered decks and a gaping hole in the living room floor.
The cavity reveals the house's concrete beams and redwood subflooring as well as a series of cracks experts, believe are related to a 7-inch droop in the southwest corner of the main deck.
How serious is the problem?
"Serious enough to have temporary scaffolding on the house," said Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, which has owned and operated the house/museum in Fayette County since 1964.
And serious enough to require hundreds of thousands of dollars...