Swayze eventually wrote a book, Underground Gardens & Homes: The Best of Two Worlds, Above and Below, but the building's fate was not mentioned.

[10][8] The New York Public Library held archives on the expo, however, and in 2017 it was found that the demolition of the home had been completed on March 15, 1966.

The model home also had a terrace area simulating outdoor space next to the living room of 384 sq ft (35.7 m2).

[15] In a 1964 New York Times piece science fiction author Isaac Asimov speculated what the 2014 World's Fair would look like.

He deemed the Underground World Home a "sign of the future" with controlled temperatures which allowed occupants to live free from the weather.

This was its only appearance in pop culture (save in the niche mythos of urban exploration, and as one of the oddities of architecture) until its interior was reproduced in the 2009 CSI: NY episode Manhattanhenge as the anachronistic lair of a mad killer, the structure supposedly simply having had soil layered on top of it and been abandoned.