Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pope-Leighey House
Take an in-depth technical tour of Frank-Loyde Wright’s Pope-Leighey House in suburban Alexandria, VA.
This Wright designed home for the “common man” was built in the 1940s. With a planned cost of under $5,000, (excluding land), even the middle class could afford a small, yet comofirtable Wright home.
Loren Pope, a writer for the Washington Star newspaper contacted Wright and asked him to design a lower cost home for him and his wife. After designing it, and hearing that the Popes had not being able to find a builder to charge less than $12,000, Wright sent one of his apprentices to act …read more
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