America's first all-metal-and-glass house is reborn in Palm Springs

An immaculate metal box built in 1931 to symbolize the future bounced around the East Coast for decades until recently landing in Palm Springs for all to see. The first American home composed entirely of metal and glass was once an experimental housing prototype in New York. Now, the three-story, 1,100-square-foot Aluminaire House is the newest and oldest structure designed by Albert Frey in Palm Springs.

Frey, meanwhile, took his passions to Palm Springs, where he designed several modernist structures across the region while cruising around town in a convertible sporting a license plate that read 'ALUMI.' The Aluminaire House now sits at Museum Drive and Tahquitz Canyon Way, at the bottom of the long, winding road to Frey House II, the spartan home Frey built for himself in the foothills in 1964 and bequeathed to the Palm Springs Art Museum upon his death in 1998.

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A homecoming for the metal house once considered the future of American architectureNow part of the collection at the Palm Springs Art Museum, the story of Albert Frey’s “Aluminaire House” and its place in the history of architecture is remarkable.
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