Fallingwater was constructed by the famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) in 1935. The house was created for Pittsburgh department store entrepreneur Edgar J. Wright's family as a private residence and weekend getaway. Fallingwater was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to rise above the waterfall it is constructed above. The home's location near Mill Run, Pennsylvania, prevented its use for agriculture and made it eligible for tax breaks. These incentives contributed to its cost being below market rate at $100,000 ($ when adjusted for inflation). Fallingwater is considered one of the first modern buildings and has been cited as an influence on later architects such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Wright planned the house carefully over a period of two years, traveling back and forth between Pittsburgh and his remote summer camp site on Bear Island, off the coast of Maine, to develop ideas. He drew the plans for the house himself and used only local builders who knew how to work with concrete and steel because he did not want anything imported into the area. Even though it was meant to be permanent, Wright also designed it to be dismantled and moved if necessary. The main house sits on a cliff overlooking a 50-foot waterfall that flows year-round. It has 10 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms for a total of 98 rooms.