Frank Lloyd Wright: Chicago, Falling Water, Boston and DC

Join Art Travel and Sue Gardiner in the USA in October 2025 as we experience Chicago, Boston, Fallingwater and Washington DC over 14 nights. Visit Oak Park in Chicago along with the Chicago Art Institute and Museum of Contemporary Art and enjoy the Chicago Architecture Cruise. Experience the best of Boston including the Isabella Stewart Gardiner Museum. Head to Pennsylvania and visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, Kentuck Knob and Polymath Park before finishing in Washington DC.

You’ll experience contemporary art and culture, architectural highlights, food and meet people along the way.

A suggested itinerary is available to download here

This tour is on waitlist – please contact to join the waitlist

This includes therefore:

• Group Arrival transfer in Chicago
• Hotel 21C in Chicago
• The Colonnade Hotel in Boston
• Historic Summit Inn near Fallingwater
• The Darcy in Washington DC – subject to confirmation
• All transfers as required by coach
• 2 domestic flights (excluding luggage)
• All breakfasts
• At least 2 meals
• All Frank Lloyd Wright visits in Chicago and around Fallingwater
• All museum and other visits as per the final itinerary
• All tips for included transport and meals
• Glen as your tour manager
• Sue Gardiner as your tour guide
• Anything else included in the final itinerary

Not Included:

• International flights to Chicago and home from DC
• Travel Insurance
• Anything not included in the final itinerary

Our minimum group guest size is 13
Our Maximum is 16

The cost for the entire itinerary is $18999.00 per person Twinshare*
Single supplement is $3500* Subject to confirmation

Deposit is $2750.00 per person to North and East Ltd and should be considered non-refundable unless we cancel the tour and obtain refunds from suppliers.

All costs are subject to confirmation based on exchange rate and Trump’s Tarriffs

Who will enjoy this tour?

This tour will be enjoyed by anyone interested in a once in a lifetime experience of Fallingwater and Oak Park among other Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, along with the art, architecture, history and culture and people of contemporary America.

How will we travel?

We will travel around coach, plane and Uber, and on foot.

Will we have a guide?

I travel as tour manager and part guide as required.
The fabulous Sue Gardiner is our art guide.

When will a final itinerary be available?

Approx 6 weeks prior to travel

What fitness do I need for this tour?

You will need to be mobile and have a mid range level of fitness. Climbing stairs, walking and standing will be required daily.
You will be required to check bags in.

Our current suggested itinerary – subject to change

DAY 1. Saturday 18 October 2025

Welcome to Chicago.
It is likley you will arrive mid evening if you are coming all the way from New Zealand today. If enough are flying together a transfer will be provided.
Your home for the next 4 nights is the 21C Museum Hotel. We are in the Magnificent Mile district, close to everything.

Relax at leisure for what is left of your evening.

DAY 2. Sunday 19 October 2025

It is Frank Lloyd Wright day today!

We start our tour by taking the bus to Oak Park and doing both the Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio tour, then the Neighbourhood Guided Walk.
This will really embed FLW into our senses for the rest of our tour.

We will stop at one other gallery location on the way back into town.
Tonight we enjoy a meal locally.

DAY 3. Monday 20 October 2025

This morning we do the famous Chicago Architecture Tour by boat, then spend time around the Chicago Art Institute, Millenium Park, and meet the ‘Chicago Bean’ before heading back to our hotel.

DAY 4. Tuesday 21 October 2025

We spend today visiting galleries around the hotel and outside of downtown such as the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Zhou B Art Center and the Chicago Arts District.

DAY 5. Wednesday 22 October 2025

Farewell Chicago, Hello Boston
Today is a travel day. We depart Chicago and fly to Boston and transfer to our hotel, The Colonade for the next 4 nights.

DAY 6. Thursday 23 October 2025

Today it is the first of two big ones – the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum.
This afternoon we will head along the famous Boston Freedom Trail.

DAY 7. Friday 24 October 2025

Today we visit the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and spend the afternoon on the coach visiting some of Boston’s historical sights.

DAY 8. Saturday 25 October 2025

Today we head out of town a short distance to visit a local collector before spending the last part of the afternoon along the many galleries around Newbury St in Back Bay.

DAY 9. Sunday 26 October 2025

Check out this morning and fly to Pittsburgh where board our bus for the 1.5 hour drive to Farmington PA. Our home for the next for the next three nights is the Historic Summit Inn.

DAY 10. Monday 27 October 2025

Relax on arrival and enjoy dinner tonight at the hotel.

It is a big day today.

We spend half a day at Frank LLoyd Wright’s famous Fallingwater. In the afternoon we visit nearby another FLW property at Kentuck Knob.

Fallingwater is a house designed in 1935 by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) for the Kaufmann family, owners of Pittsburgh’s largest department store. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater is one of his most widely acclaimed works and best exemplifies his philosophy of organic architecture: the harmonious union of art and nature.

Kentuck Knob is both dramatic and serene…the house, situated just below the crest of the hill, appears almost part of the mountain itself and stands 2,050 feet above sea level. Cantilevered overhangs and great expanses of glass effortlessly integrate the inside with the outside. Wright adapted his philosophy of organic architecture to a modern world and called this style ‘Usonian’. Designed on a hexagonal module, Kentuck Knob is a 2,200 sq. ft. Grand Usonian home.

DAY 11. Tuesday 28 October 2025

It is not over yet – today we travel to Polymath Park, the last of the three FLW locations in the area.

Your afternoon will be free to relax.
Dinner tonight is at the hotel.

DAY 12. Wednesday 29 October 2025

Farewell Fallingwater and welcome to Washington DC, home of the Smithsonian Museums, The Glenstone, Rubell, and others.

DAY 13. Thursday 30 October 2025

Enjoy a welcome drink and orientation this afternoon.

Our hotel for the last three nights is The Darcy
Today we are off to visit The Glenstone Museum outside of DC, and, fingers crossed a local collector on the way home.

DAY 14. Friday 31 October 2025

Happy Halloween!

Today we tick the boxes on the National Mall including: Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, The Renwick Museum of American Craft, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Rubell Museum. You can choose which ever of the great museums you wish to finish off your day.

Farewell dinner tonight

DAY 15. Saturday 1 November 2025

We head to the airport for flights home, or your onward destination.
Thanks for travelling with us.