Frank Lloyd Wright
b. 1867 · d. 1959
American architect, founder of the Prairie and Usonian schools. Designed the Pope-Leighey House (1940), now relocated to the 9000 Richmond Highway 9000 Richmond Highway Federal-style brick mansion built 1800–1805 by and on a 2,000-acre tract carved from the Mount Vernon estate as their wedding gift from . parcel in Alexandria.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the modest one-story Usonian house known today as Pope-Leighey for journalist Loren Pope in 1939–1940; Pope sold it in 1947 to Robert and Marjorie Leighey, whose names it now carries. When Interstate 66 construction threatened the house at its original Falls Church site in 1964, Marjorie Leighey deeded it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which moved it to the Woodlawn parcel. The relocated house opened to the public in 1965. [1] National Trust — Pope-Leighey Website
Wright never lived in the Washington area but the relocated Pope-Leighey is among the few surviving Wright Usonians in public hands on the East Coast.
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National Trust for Historic Preservation, "Pope-Leighey House," collection record, accessed 2026-05-01, https://savingplaces.org/places/pope-leighey-house.
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