9000
Richmond Highway
Frank Lloyd Wright 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 parcel in Alexandria. Usonian house built in 1940 for journalist Loren Pope; 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 1964 to escape Interstate 66 construction at its original Falls Church site.
- 1940
- Usonian
- Extant
- National Register of Historic Places
Place narrative
Pope-Leighey is one of about sixty Usonian houses Frank Lloyd Wright designed in the late 1930s and 1940s as affordable single-family homes for middle-class clients. Loren Pope, a Washington Star copy editor, commissioned the house in 1939; Wright completed the design in 1940. Pope sold it in 1947 to Robert and Marjorie Leighey, whose names it now carries. [1] National Trust — Pope-Leighey Website
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 dismantled and reassembled it on the Woodlawn parcel. The relocated house opened to the public in 1965. A second move on the same parcel in 1995 corrected soil-subsidence damage. The house operates today as a public museum paired with Woodlawn.
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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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