Four of Fallingwater's famous cantilevered terraces already are open to tourists. In May a fifth will open - for lunch reservations. The lunches will cap a new tour at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, which draws approximately 130,000 visitors each year. The 2 &*#189;-hour tour will be limited to groups of four to six and will be led by the home's curators, including director Lynda Waggoner. Tickets will cost $125. The curator will stay on for lunch, which will be served on one of two terraces: the private servants' terrace, or another above the home's carports. 'It's a chance to get some real in-depth information about the house,' said Sarah Beyer, curator of education at the Mill Run, Fayette County, home, which is maintained by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. 'Public interest in Wright and in architecture has really developed over the last 10 or 15 years,' Beyer said. 'With that we've also seen an interest in talking with senior-level staff who are involved in these important issues that are going on.' Issue No. 1, of course, is the $11 million renovation the house now needs. That work will strengthen the home's sagging cantilevers, which jut out over Bear Run. Steel shoring has braced the cantilevers since 1997. Structural work will begin in November. Other topics on the new tour may include the home's art collection and the ways landscape influenced Wright's design. The conservancy will again offer its weekly Land of Fallingwater tour, a hike through the Bear Run Nature Reserve. But the cost of that excursion, which ends with a tour of the home, has doubled, to $50. Basic tours of the home will again cost $10 on weekdays and $14 on weekends. The home is closed Mondays. Weekend tours began yesterday. More than 200 people had reservations. Weekday tours will begin March 13.

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