Kentuck Knob at Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau Annual Dinner

BACK: Patricia Coyle, Laurie Bryner, Heidi Ruby Miller, Marianne Skvarla; FRONT: Robin and Monica Jackson

The Laurel Highlands Visitors Bureau held its annual dinner on Thursday, October 22, 2009, at the Fred M. Rogers Center on the St. Vincent College campus. The theme IT'S A WONDERFUL DAY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD played not only on the meeting's locale, but also the bureau's new tourism campaign: Laurel Highlands Pennsylvania - A Place of Wonder.

The entertaining featured speaker, James Kane, shared with the group "The Secret to Creating Loyal Customers, Members, and Guests."

Representing Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Knob were Executive Director Marianne Skvarla, Assistant Director Monica Jackson, Marketing Director Patricia Coyle, Merchandising Director Robin Jackson, Cafe Director Laurie Bryner, and Educational Marketing Director Heidi Ruby Miller.

Patricia Coyle and Marianne Skvarla from Kentuck Knob chatting with Brad Heiser of Fallingwater

Kentuck Knob on Pittsburgh G20 Summit Site

An article about Frank Lloyd Wright's House on Kentuck Knob is now up on the Pittsburgh G20 Summit website under the Cultural Phenomenon section:

http://www.g20pittsburghsummit.org/quality-of-life/cultural-phenomenon/house-on-kentuck-knob/

Entrance to Kentuck Knob as seen through the carport

Photo by Jason Jack Miller

SYNOPSIS
In 1954, Hagan Ice Cream owners I.N. and Bernardine Hagan contacted architect Frank Lloyd Wright via their friend Edgar J. Kauffmann, owner of Kaufmann's Department Stores and the architectural masterpiece Fallingwater. The Hagans wanted a Wright-designed home of their own for 80 acres of timbered farmland on a hilltop which maps referred to as Kentuck Knob, located in the Appalachians. The house, now owned by Lord Peter Palumbo, exemplifies Usonian traits such as horizontal lines and built-in furnishings, while conforming to Mr. Wright's principles of organic architecture through the use of natural materials like Pottsville Sandstone and Tidewater Red Cypress.