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