Aluminum House Moves On... Again
Originally designed for an architectural exhibition
in Manhattan in 1931, the "Aluminaire"
house was taken down after the show and reerected
as a country home at Huntington, Long
Island (N.Y.). But early in 1987, the building,
deteriorated and empty, was in danger of being
demolished when the owner wanted to develop the
land. Preservationists and architects raised quite a
fuss, since they considered the building to be one of
the country's first prefabricated houses. Now, after
receiving a grant from the State Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation Department for
$99,000, nine architecture students at the New
York Institute of Technology are busily dismantling
the building, cataloguing and documenting
each piece. The