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Friends of mine have gotten it into their heads that I like going places, and so, when they have places to go, they ask me if I'd like to ride along.
I always do.
It was Sally Horsman's idea that we go to Kentuck Knob, the Frank Lloyd Wright house near the former Kaufmann estate, Fallingwater. We thought it was going to be another academic exercise in the nobility of the master builder, but it was much more romantic than that. We fell in love with the house.
Women, I think, are always looking for the ideal nesting site. Sally, who with her husband, Tom, has a handsome house in Fox Chapel, and I, who have a house I'm attached to in Point Breeze, were ready to give up everything and move to Chalk Hill, where the house at Kentuck Knob is scribed into the landscape.
And it might almost have been possible. If I had, first of all, known about it, then sold everything, borrowed money from whomever and been prepared to take out a monstrous mortgage, I might have bought it. The house, listed through Sotheby's, sold to the English Lord Peter Palumbo in 1986 for about $600,000 with 78 acres of scenic woodland attached. It was big money but not an astronomical sum for what is, without question, dreamland.
Had I bought it, of course, I wouldn't have had resources to feed myself let alone restore and develop the property as have Lord and Lady...