{"nrhp_refnum":"70000791","name":"Pope-Leighey House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"E of Accotink off U.S. 1","address_restricted":false,"city":"Accotink","county":"Fairfax (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":38.71945102900003,"lon":-77.13598096699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-12-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Usonian house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, built 1940-1941 and later dismantled and rebuilt in 1965 at Woodlawn Plantation near Accotink, Fairfax County, Virginia.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a leading example of Wright's Usonian houses, his effort to provide well-designed, low-cost housing for average Americans. It is called the third and perhaps most representative of those houses. Its value as an architectural document is supported by a quotation from critic Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr.","narrative":"This small Usonian house was designed in 1939 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Loren Pope. Construction began in the summer of 1940 under Gordon Chadwick, one of Wright's Taliesin apprentices, and the house was ready by the winter of 1941. It is a single story with no basement or attic, a broad flat roof, a cantilevered carport and walls of unpainted cypress over a plywood core, set on a concrete slab holding the heating pipes. The Popes sold it in 1946 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Leighey. When highway construction threatened the site in 1963, the house was dismantled and rebuilt at Woodlawn Plantation, finished by June 1965, with the National Trust for Historic Preservation taking responsibility for it as a house museum. The nomination values it as the third and perhaps most representative of Wright's Usonian designs, which aimed to give ordinary Americans well-designed, economical homes.","period_of_significance":"1940-1941","architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright (architect); construction supervised by Gordon Chadwick, a Taliesin apprentice","architectural_style":"Usonian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition, altered by being moved; occupied and used as a house museum and private residence. The house was dismantled and reconstructed at its present site in 1965.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.597139-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/14/6805/41680514/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/70000791.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000791/82233683a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000791/82233683a1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pope-Leighey_House_-_North_east_facade_-_HABS_VA,30-FALCH,2-10.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pope-Leighey_House_-_North_east_facade_-_HABS_VA,30-FALCH,2-10.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680514","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope%E2%80%93Leighey_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7229144"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/fairfax/pope-leighey-house-70000791/"}