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Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House are two iconic, historic homes owned and operated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and set on 126 historic acres of land that were originally inhabited by the Doeg people.

Woodlawn, completed in 1805, was built on land gifted to Eleanor Parke Custis and Lawrence Lewis by George Washington. Woodlawn operated as a plantation where the family enslaved more than ninety men, women, and children of African descent. After the Lewis family sold the property to Quakers in the 1840's, Woodlawn became a free labor colony in the years prior to the Civil War. In the early 20th century, the owners modernized the home and in the 1950's Woodlawn was purchased and became the first public site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Pope-Leighey House was built for Loren and Charlotte Pope in Falls Church, Virginia in the 1940's. The home was saved from demolition by the second owner, Marjorie Leighey, when it was moved to Woodlawn in the 1960's. Today, visitors can explore the only Frank Lloyd Wright home open to the public in the D.C. area and be inspired by Wright's Usonian architecture and a vision for affordable, well-designed housing.