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Everyone knows of Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural marvel in Fayette County.
Now, thanks to the largesse of Lord Peter Palumbo, a London real estate magnate, Wright's second and lesser known house in Western Pennsylvania, Kentuck Knob, may become famous.
Starting May 1, the rambling stone retreat, also in Fayette County at Chalk Hill, will be open to the public.
Although known to scholars, the house has always had limited access to visitors. The 1956 U-shaped fieldstone dwelling was built for the I.N. Hagan family, former Uniontown ice cream manufacturers.
Lord Peter Palumbo and his wife purchased the property, which includes 79 acres around the house and extended woodlands totaling 1,000 acres, in the early 1980s.
Palumbo, 60, was appointed chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1989 by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a position he held for five years.
He is also a board member or trustee of many cultural and economic organizations, including the Tate Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. He is a governor of the London School of Economics and a trustee of The Museum of Modern Art's Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe Archive in New York.
The Hagans followed Wright's advice and...