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The Berlin artist Ryan Mendoza stands in front of the Rosa Parks House in Berlin. Photo: Monika Skolimowska / Archives
Source: dpa-infocom GmbH
N New York (dpa) – The home of US civil rights activist Rosa Parks (1913-2005), who has been an artist for several months in his Garden in Berlin did not find an acquirer at an auction in the United States. The two-storey, pointed-roof wooden house had already been estimated by the New York auction house Guernsey up to 3 million dollars (about 2.6 million euros). At the Thursday auction in New York, however, no one offered the minimum bid of a million dollars. Parks is considered an icon of the black American civil rights movement since she refused to leave her place in the bus for a white man in 1955.
The house was originally the property of Rosa Park's brother's family, Sylvester McCauley. Then, it was long abandoned and had to be demolished until Rosa Parks' niece, Rhea McCauley, bought it for $ 500. She tried to save him, finally met the Berlin artist Ryan Mendoza and gave it to him.
Mendoza shipped the house to Berlin and rebuilt it in 2017 on his property in the Wedding district, where hundreds of people were watching. Earlier this year, the house then returned to the other side of the Atlantic in the United States and spent some time at the prestigious Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. What happened at home, which is currently stored in a room near New York, was not clear in the beginning.
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