The Aluminaire House was shown in the
Grand Central Palace exhibition hall on Lexington Avenue in New York City as part of the Architectural and Allied Arts Exhibition. In 1932, the house was exhibited again, this time at the
Architectural League of New York show sponsored by the
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). The MOMA show was titled
The International Style - Architecture Since 1922, which became the basis of a book by
Philip Johnson and
Henry-Russell Hitchcock,
The International Style, a manifesto for the
International Style of architecture. After the early exhibitions, the house was sold to architect
Wallace K. Harrison for $1,000 (), who disassembled it and moved it to his
Long Island estate, where it became the core of an extensive complex. By 1940, the so-called "Tin House" was once again disassembled and moved to another portion of the property, where it became a guest house. The property was subdivided by new buyers in the 1980s who planned to demolish the Aluminaire House. An attempt to designate the house as a landmark failed, but the owners agreed to donate the house to the
New York Institute of Technology, which reassembled the house on the school's Central Islip campus. In 2015, it was announced that the Aluminaire House would be moved to
Palm Springs, California, home of other works by Frey. In early 2018, the house was placed in a container and shipped to Palm Springs. Initial plans called for it to be rebuilt in a park opposite the
Palm Springs Art Museum, pending a $475,000 fund raising effort for its restoration. Assembly of the house at the museum was planned for 2021, but actually began in July of 2023, on a parking lot just south of the museum and with a budget of $2.6 million. Because of its desert location, the museum added air conditioning and weatherproofing. ==Description==