A preservationist has bought a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in Town and Country with plans to restore it and turn it into a museum and multiuse facility.

Michael Miner, who has a nonprofit called the Frank Lloyd Wright Revival Initiative based in Palm City, Florida, announced this week he had bought the house. The selling price was not immediately available.

Family members and Miner closed on the deal Thursday.

The house had been put up for sale in spring 2018 after owner Bette Pappas died at age 91. It had an asking price of $1.95 million and was later formally listed at $1.2 million. Pappas and her husband, Ted, had the house designed by Wright and built most of it themselves, completing it in 1964. They were the only owners.

The couple’s three grown daughters had wanted someone to preserve the house but struggled to find a buyer. A different local group formed a nonprofit foundation with the intent to raise about $2 million to buy and refurbish it.

The Pappas sisters, twins Cynthia and Charisse of Jefferson City and Candace Simmons of Foristell, said they were pleased with the sale. They said their late brother Theodore Jr. and parents would be as well.