The Guthrie House in downtown Palm Springs has landed on the market for $2.399 million.

Once forgotten, this 3,583-square-foot house was designed by modernist architect Albert Frey in 1935 and restored and updated in 2019 by the mother-and-daughter rehabbers behind the Avi Ross Group.

Marina and Avalon Rossi also run The Rossi Hotel in town.

In tackling the redo, the duo peeled away decades of character-altering renovations and inappropriate, ill-proportioned additions by subsequent owners to reveal Frey’s original stucco box.

“What made Frey the epitome of desert architecture was his emphasis on the relationship between the buildings and the raw, California desert landscape,” they explain at their firm’s website. “With the Guthrie House, our focus was to integrate the natural desert into the home, while accommodating today’s living standards.”

The now refreshed Frey is light and bright. It has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a minimalist kitchen with a custom rangehood inspired by the steel circular fireplace in the architect’s corrugated aluminum and glass residence, known as Frey I.

A brick wall separating the kitchen and dining room was hand-painted to recall the Parisian apartment of Le Corbusier, a onetime design partner of Frey.

The dining and living rooms, meanwhile, boast polished concrete floors, picture windows and smooth walls in earth tones.

Concrete floors run throughout the house, including the master suite with its two walk-in closets, bathroom with indoor and outdoor showers and private patio with a flush to the ground firepit.

All three bedrooms open up to a patio.

Bahareh Kamoei of BBS Brokers Realty is the listing agent.

Frey, who died in 1998 at age 95, designed numerous residences and civic and commercial buildings in Palm Springs, including Frey House II.

The iconic 1964 house sits perched on a mountainside overlooking the desert community, which Frey fell for in 1934 during a visit from New York.

He relocated to Palm Springs permanently in 1939.

Other notable works include the Aerial Tramway Valley Station, Loewy House and the Tramway Gas Station, with its “flying” canopy.