The City Council is scheduled to vote on the designation on Nov. 7. Councilman Sal DiCiccio, who represents Arcadia, the neighborhood where the house is located, said he wanted to hear from the new buyer first. “We don’t want to be in a position of dictating what should happen to the property,” he said.

Mr. Stanton said he was going to work to keep the vote on the calendar or, if the date changed, “not too far in the future.”

Mr. Sells and Mr. Hoffman paid $1.8 million for the house three years after it had been sold by Wright’s great-granddaughters for $2.8 million. One of them, Anne Wright-Levi, who spent much of her childhood at the home, built by Wright for her grandparents, said the heirs had no other choice, given the cost of maintaining the house, which none of them could have afforded on their own. Ms. Wright-Levi said the house needed about $300,000 worth of restoration.

“There were bills to pay, there were taxes that had to be paid, there were things that had to be done, but the money wasn’t there to maintain it,” she said.

They sold the house, she said, “knowing that the buyers would follow through in what they had promised to do, to preserve the house.” A change in circumstances forced those buyers to sell it, which is how 8081 Meridian came into the picture.