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”.Â
 
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.Â
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

February 14th, 2007 at 12:45 am
Two more books devoted to individual Wright houses are due out soon.
“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Palmer House” published by the University of Washington Press and “At Nature’s Edge:Frank Lloyd Wright’s Artist’s Studio”
published by the University of Utah Press. The latter is on the Archie Boyd
Teater House/Studio.
February 14th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
i see you are interested in FLW homes and featured two from Kankakee IL on your site. My in-laws live right down the street from both of these houses. Sadly I have to report the B. Harley Bradley Residence suffered extensive damage from a fire not long ago. The law office sold this house to a private owner last year who was in the middle of renovating the stables and the home. They are currently rebuilding both.