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Article: WRIGHT MINDED ONE OF THE LAST HOUSES DESIGNED BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IS ON THE MARKET IN VIRGINIA BEACH, ITS ORIGINAL DESIGN INTACT.(HOME)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1996
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Byline: TERESA ANNAS, STAFF WRITER
IN 1958, ARCHITECTS from across the state dashed to Virginia Beach, hoping for a peek at some honest-to-goodness Frank Lloyd Wright blueprints.
A Wright-designed home was being built at the North End of the Oceanfront. The state's architects considered this quite a big event. After all, Wright had been a paragon in their field for more than half a century.
Ground was broken on the Beach house on April 7, 1959. Two days later, America's greatest 20th century architect died at age 90.
As it turned out, it was among Wright's last completed works; it wasfinished in January 1960, one month after Wright's ...