Well that got your attention.  Actually the Pope house isn’t on Ebay.  My friend Rich allerted me to an auction for a book about the Pope house that appeared on ebay.  It is titled “Historic Preservation.  Special Issue on Pope-Leighey House:  A Property of the National Trust”. 

 

Historic Preservation Volume 21, Numbers 2-3 - April-Sept 1969

Volume 21, Numbers 2-3 - April-Sept 1969Special Issue On Pope-Leighey House

Softcover, 120 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Cover edgewear, one tear on the front cover and a number is written on the front cover. Pages are clean and binding is tight.

CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Chronology
• Documents
• Frank Lloyd Wright: His Concepts and Career
• Twenty-Five Years Later: Still a Love Affair
• A Testimony to Beauty
• The Challenge of Being a Taliesin Fellow
• The Challenge of Constructing a Wright House
• Siting and Landscaping
• Furniture and Decoration
• The Threat, Rescue and Move
• The Usonian Pope-Leighey House

Rich didn’t win the auction.  He did go to the library and check it out.  He said it was an amazing source of information and expressed wonder that it had not been reprinted. 

Thanks for reading.  If you’re curious, you can find the Ebay auction at the link below:

Historic Preservation - Frank Lloyd Wright Pope-Leighey House

As always, Thanks for reading.

Pete

Greetings.  I got an e-mail from Brian who found what is identified as a Wright home in the Lighthouse Hill neighborhood of Staten Island.   

PLEASE CLICK HERE to see the web site where Brian found it.  It is about half way down the page on the left side.

I didn’t think that I had any of my Wright resources with me, but I totally forgot that I carry Storrer’s companion on CDRom in my laptop bag when I travel. 

That appears to be the Cass Residence in Richmond, New York.  It is an Erdman Prefab built in 1959.  According to the web site, Mrs. Cass passed away in 2004. 

This is some of what Storer has to say about it:

“The Cass house was shown at open houses for Macy’s, which furnished the home to Wright’s specifications.  Its name, the Crimson Beech, refers to a centuries-old Copper Beech tree around which the house was situated; it has since been destroyed by lightning. ”

 One of the photos in Storer’s book shows a lighthouse in the background.  That makes me think that the home is located at the beach.  Yahoo maps puts the house roughly 1.5 miles from the shore.  Google maps actually shows a lot more detail with the satellite photos.  There is, indeed a lighthouse in the lot next door.  Strange but true.

Thanks for reading.

 Pete

 

 

Greetings. 

Joan, one of the folks that reads this blog and contributes, noticed that Yahoo’s question of the day for yesterday had to do with Frank Lloyd Wright. 

HERE is the link.

 Please discuss…

That link will probably go south someday, so here’s the text of the question and answer: