Polymath Park was designed by a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice to be a small community of “Usonian” homes, Frank Lloyd Wright's concept for housing for the common people. Located in Western Pennsylvania, the 125-acre (0.51 km2) property now hosts three homes, connected by unpaved roads on a mostly wooded site. Peter Berndtson, one of the original Wright apprentices at Taliesin, created a 1962 master plan for Polymath Park that allowed for 24 dwellings to be sited in individual, circular clearings in the forest. Ultimately, only two of his home designs were built on the property and are still standing. In 2007, one of Wright’s Usonian homes was deconstructed in Illinois, relocated to the Polymath site, and then faithfully reconstructed according to Wright’s original design. Berndtson's homes are known as the Balter House (1964) and the Blum House (1965), both of which were used as summer homes for the Blum and Balter families. The good news is that you can tour these homes or stay for the night!
Polymath Park Resort
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