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    POSTED: 12:34 pm EST December 8, 2006
    UPDATED: 5:45 pm EST December 8, 2006

    The workers at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater got quite a surprise Thursday afternoon when Brad Pitt and Angelia Jolie showed up for a tour of the estate.

    According to a spokesman for Fallingwater, Pitt and Jolie arrived just before 3 p.m. for the tour, Jolie's gift to Pitt for his birthday.

    "Brad said he had wanted to experience Fallingwater ever since he took an architectural history course in college," Fallingwater's curator of education Cara Armstrong said. "He and I talked quite a bit about design and art. He was incredibly well-informed about architecture."

    The couple took a two-hour private focused tour, led by Armstrong, who described the couple as "very gracious and very engaged in the house."

    "Brad said he had a visual sense of Fallingwater but experiencing it in person, hearing the sound of the waterfall cascading under the house and smelling the wood from the fireplace was better than anything he could have imagined," Armstrong said.

    After the tour, Jolie had arranged to have champagne and caviar sent in, which the couple shared in a private birthday celebration in Fallingwater's living room. Afterward, they invited the staff to join them and encouraged them to take the "snacks" home.

    Arrangements for the visit began about a week before Thanksgiving when staff at Fallingwater received a call from Jolie's personal assistant in Asia.


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