Pew Hill | |
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  Pew Hill Location within the state of West Virginia  Pew Hill Pew Hill (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 39°10′56″N81°8′38″W / 39.18222°N 81.14389°W Coordinates: 39°10′56″N81°8′38″W / 39.18222°N 81.14389°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | West Virginia |
| County | Ritchie |
| Elevation | 945 ft (288 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| GNIS ID | 1549874 [1] |
Pew Hill is an unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States.
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The John C. Pew House, also known as the Ruth and John C. Pew House, is located at 3650 Lake Mendota Drive, Shorewood Hills, Wisconsin. It was designed by American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright in 1938 for research chemist John Pew and his wife, Ruth. Built on a narrow lot, the two-story home steps down the sloping hill to the shore of Madison's Lake Mendota. A home in Wright's Usonian style, the building was meant to be economical: its cost was US$8,750. Construction was supervised by a member of Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, William Wesley "Wes" Peters. Peters said to Wright about the building that, "I guess you can call the Pew house a poor man's Fallingwater." To which Wright was to have replied, "No, Fallingwater is the rich man's Pew House."
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