In 1998, the Piarist Fathers, headquartered at Frank Lloyd Wright's Graycliff in Derby, placed the estate for sale. It had been constructed in 1927 for Darwin Martin and his wife, Isabelle. The Catholic order had owned the property for over 40 years and had made alterations and constructions as needed to meet their needs. One of those was the erection of a dormitory (later called the school building) on the small plot once where Martin grandchildren recall playing. On that building was a large concrete mural by Jozef Slawinski.

After the Graycliff Conservancy purchased the estate in 1999, they set about removing the non-Wright structures on the property. The school building was to be demolished in the early autumn of 2002 and, with it, the mural unless some organization stepped forward to remove it. The Polish Arts Club, headed by Peter K Gessner, managed to raise enough money to save the mural. The view seen by the Martins as they entered their property was restored. The mural's journey is sketched below.