Quasqueton Travel Guide

Favorite thing: Iowa may be full of corn and soybeans, but is also crossed by numerous streams and rivers that flow eastward to the Mississippi or westward to the Missouri. These watercourses provide the landscape with vital habitat for songbirds, for deer, for wildflowers and mushrooms and oak trees. At Cedar Rock, Wright used the natural beauty of the river valley to create a place set apart from everyday life. It's a idyll for contemplation and relaxation - a world away from the intensely cultivated fields only a few hundred yards distant.

Favorite thing: At Cedar Rock, the house still feels very much lived in. And it is more comfortable, less austere, than many Wright houses I've seen. Wright hated curtains, which in urban locations sometimes seems absurd. But here at this isolated location, it seems completely natural to have clear plate glass windows throughout the living space.