Frank Lloyd Wright house 'could move from US to Japan'

A real estate agent who has been trying to sell a Frank Lloyd Wright home for two years is considering an inquiry from clients who want to move it from Southern California to Japan.

The La Miniatura in Pasadena is among two of Wright's experimental textile-block homes that have languished on the market. In 2008 agent Crosby Doe listed the partially restored home at $7.7 million, but recently dropped it to under $5 million.



He says it is a longshot but he has been talking to an international art dealer with Japanese art-collector clients who might be interested in buying the house.

"With my position in the preservation community, I will probably be crucified for saying this," says Doe. "But we have to consider all options. We moved the London Bridge to the Colorado River. Why couldn't we move this house to Japan?", he said. Wright built four of the masonry homes in the early 1920s, all in Southern California.