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Friday, August 30, 2013

Frank Lloyd Wright's Pope-Leighey House

We recently toured the Pope-Leighey House designed by the famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and now preserved by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is located on the property of the Woodlawn Plantation across Mount Vernon in Alexandria, Virginia. The Wikipedia entry can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope-Lei.... I've never seen a Wright creation before this tour. The style is known as his Usonian period. The house built in 1940 is constructed of cypress, brick, and glass. There are no gutters and no painting (you got to love the no maintenance part!). The living room area was pretty cool, but the master bedroom was too cramped for me. Also, the house has very little storage space and one bathroom. I've been thinking about using the house for a setting in one of my private detective novels. Stay tuned for that development.

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