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Transcript: Small Frank Lloyd Wright House Moved for $500,000
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- September 14, 1995
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Fifty-five years ago Frank Lloyd Wright built the Pope-Leighey House
for $7,000. It is now being moved 30 feet away, for the third time,
at a cost of more than half a million dollars.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: A house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1940
is being disassembled in Mount Vernon, Virginia, so it can rise again
some 30 feet away. This will be the third time the house has gone
up, the second time it's been taken down and put up again. The Pope-
Leighey House, a museum property of the National Trust for Historic
Preservation, was built 55 years ago for $7,000. The current dismantling
and reassembling cost more than half a million dollars. ...