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Virginia Beach Wright house can be yours for right price

Peruse the Virginia Beach home’s website at www.flwrightbeachhouse.com . Contact information for Dan and Jane Duhl is there.

Go to www.savewright.org for a look at The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy’s effort to preserve his structures for posterity. Full of archival photos. A link to the Cooke House in Virginia Beach is there, listed under “Wright on the Market.”

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Crunch up the gravel drive past sunlight flashing through a stand of bamboo. Arrive back in the future.

Long, wide eaves punctuated by glass panels direct the eye to the main house and its peaceful, pleasing horizontal lines.

Set into a dune above Crystal Lake at the North End of Virginia Beach, the home is roofed with copper, dull and green with age.

Walk through the front door and feel drawn into a light-saturated arc, a 70-foot great room with a sweeping view of forest, water and sky.

The Cooke House, designed by the visionary and eccentric architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is for sale. It's only the second time since it was finished 51 years ago that the house will change hands.

Its renegade creator transformed the architectural vernacular in America before the turn of the 20th century with work that predicted the clean lines in both public and private structures today. Wright rejected what he derisively called copycat buildings that mimicked age-old European architecture.

Our country should have its own style, he thought: organic shapes in harmony with nature, buildings drenched with natural light and a feeling of both cozy shelter and soaring space. Construction materials should fit the natural setting, abstract forms mirror natural shapes - flowers, trees, hills, rivers, lakes.

Instead of being all about buildings, to Wright it was all about land.

"The land is the beginning of architecture," Wright often said, writes Patrick J. Meehan in "Frank Lloyd Wright Remembered."

The way Wright arrived at his revolutionary ideas began in childhood. After his birth in 1867, his mother decided that her child should become an architect.

When Wright was a young boy, his mother, Anna Lloyd Jones Wright, bought her son a set of Froebel toys. The geometric shapes of blocks, pegs and colored papers developed by German educator Friedrich Froebel, together with summers on his uncles' farms, shaped young Wright's world view, writes architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable in the biography "Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life.

Celebrate the 4th in Williamsburg, Yorktown and Hampton Roads VA ...

Experience Williamsburg under the control of invading British forces. Watch British soldiers, commanded by Lt. Gen. Lord Cornwallis, as they plan their advance. Interact with the townspeople as they struggle with the loss of liberties after the British impose martial law. Witness drills and exercises, mounted troop and artillery demonstrations, and surgeons […] Take a break from the heat and enjoy online the 2011 summer edition of the journal Colonial Williamsburg. Read enhanced versions of some of the magazine’s articles on Jamestown, prisons and prison reform, laws and punishments, the Battle of Williamsburg, and historic figures interpreted in the Historic Area. View the articles on your iPad, too! The onl […] On June 15, 2011 Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Trades Carpenters finished framing the front wall of the Armoury.   We began by laying the sill over on its side, and fitted the corner posts, door posts and intermediate post into the sill and the plate. We leveled and squared the wall, then laid out our downbraces, scribing their shoulders to the fram […] When the American Revolution began and Britain no longer shipped supplies to her rebellious colonies, tradesmen and women had to answer the need for domestic goods. Supplier of everything from sails to bedsheets, the weaver’s business boomed at the onset of war. In this week’s podcast, listen as weaver Max Hamrick spins the tale of weaving and dy […] LOCALS TIPS: For those trying to watch the Busch Gardens fireworks for free, don’t try to park on the flyover from Interstate 64. Police will move you along. There are a few places to view them along Rt 60 and Rt 143

Yorktown Fourth of July Fireworks. 9:15 p.m. over the York River. The best viewing areas are along the waterfront and at the Yorktown Victory Monument. The beach picnic area will not be open to the public as it will be used as the launch site for the fireworks show. Visitors are urged to arrive in Yorktown before 5:30 p.m. for the fireworks show due to heavy traffic. Once the parking area has reached capacity, the entire town will be closed to vehicular traffic.

Visitors are urged to arrive in Yorktown before 5:30 p.m. for the fireworks show due to heavy traffic volumes. Once the parking area has reached capacity, the entire town will be closed to vehicular traffic.

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