The house where Rosa Parks lived on S. Deacon Street in Detroit back in the late 1950s is up for auction Thursday, July 26 in New York City, and the minimum bid for the restored home starts at $1 million.

Parks lived in the home between 1957 and 1959, and two years removed from famously standing up to an Alabama law requiring black bus riders to give seats up to white passengers. The "mother of the civil rights movement" and her family moved to Detroit to escape the never-ending death threats and harassment.

As for the home itself, Parks' niece Rhea McCauley bought the house from the city of Detroit for $500 after it was abandoned and faced demolition, and then donated it to American artist Ryan Mendoza. The artist then transported the home to Berlin, Germany where he and a team of volunteers would spend six months rebuilding the small wood-frame home.

Once the home was rebuilt, Mendoza had a public showing in Berlin before transporting it back across the Atlantic to Rhode Island where it has recently been on display.

The home itself is for sale as part of Guernsey auction house's "African American Historic & Cultural Treasures" on Thursday and Friday in New York City. The Associated Press reports that Mendoza and the Parks family will split the proceeds from the sale.

Guernsey's estimates on its website that the house will sell for between $1 and $3 million.

When Mendoza was interviewed by MLive, he said that he had always hoped that "after the house is fully reconstructed in Europe, that it will go back to America, its dignity restored." Mendoza is known around Detroit for his "The White House" and "The Invitation" projects.

"From the viewpoint of art and design, the story of the house and its history since leaving Detroit is a demonstration of the new reach of preservation and the power of creative adaptive reuse," Rhode Island School of Design architecture department head Liliane Wong says in the item listing for the home.

"It raises important questions about what we as a people value and how much we are willing to put at stake to preserve those values."

In her lifetime, Parks was recognized with the nation's two highest possible honors in the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. She worked in the office of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, for 23 years.

When Parks died in 2005 at the age of 92, she was the first woman in U.S. history to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.