Neutra's Kaufmann House goes up for auction

Another modernist classic is up on the auction block. But, after the Farnsworth House went for $7.5 million, it is hard to judge what this will go for. And, reports the NY Times, the whole auction thing has some folks upset:

Still, such sales sometimes draw criticism from preservationists who would prefer that the houses be tended by a public institution or trust that guarantees continued access for architecture students and scholars rather than sold to the highest bidder. (The Farnsworth House, now open to the public, was bought by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, while the Maison Tropicale went to a private bidder.)