Frank Lloyd Wright house puts out the welcome mat

The welcome mat has become more welcoming at Fallingwater.

On Friday, the famed Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in southwestern Pennsylvania spelled out a new program to let visitors stay two nights on the grounds and have hours of access, including dinner, at "everyone's dream house in the woods," director Lynda Waggoner said.

Previously, only students, teachers, and staff could do more than go through on a tour, she said.

The initial guest list, though, is not only small, but it also might already be filled.

Dates were announced for just three seminars, each accommodating eight people, who will stay on the grounds - the Bear Run Nature Preserve - in a four-bedroom house with private baths, and take part in tours, meals, and lectures with Waggoner and curators.

Visitors will be allowed to take photographs and even sit on some real furniture, although reproductions also will be used.

The three-day sessions will start May 11, June 10, and Sept. 7, with a per-person cost of $1,095 for double occupancy, and $1,595 for single occupancy.

Fallingwater, remarkable for how its cantilevered construction extends over a waterfall, was built for a department store tycoon in the 1930s at Mill Creek, Fayette County, about 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.