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The Elrod House is a residence in Palm Springs, California designed by American architect John Lautner and constructed in 1968. It is located on the edge of a hill at 2175 Southridge Drive in Palm Springs, California. The construction of the house was ordered by Arthur Elrod, the interior designer. One of Lautner's many houses in Southridge and ...
Completed. 1946. Design and construction. Architect (s) Richard J. Neutra. The Kaufmann Desert House, or simply the Kaufmann House, is a house in Palm Springs, California, that was designed by architect Richard Neutra in 1946. It was commissioned by Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., a businessman who also commissioned Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright. [1]
Twin Palms is a single-story residential building, 4,500sq ft in size with 4 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms, constructed around long horizontal lines framed with steel and aluminum and windows that stretch to the ground. The house has a flat and slightly sloping roof, and a piano shaped swimming pool, the design of which was entirely accidental.
Salvation Mountain at the LOVE IS UNIVERSAL area; 2008 photo. Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by local resident Leonard Knight (1931–2014) in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commune, [1] and several miles from the Salton Sea.
Richard Neutra. Richard Joseph Neutra (/ ˈnɔɪtrə / NOI-tra; [1] April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for most of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. [2][3] His most notable works include the Kaufmann Desert House, in ...
Palm Springs became popular with movie stars in the 1930s [48] and estate building expanded into the Movie Colony neighborhoods, Tahquitz River Estates, and Las Palmas neighborhoods. Actors Charles Farrell and Ralph Bellamy opened the Racquet Club in 1934 [ 24 ] : Ch. 25 [ 49 ] [ 50 ] and Pearl McCallum opened the Tennis Club in 1937. [ 44 ]
Hope Residence. Coordinates: 33.7876°N 116.5118°W. The Hope Residence is a house at 2466 Southridge Drive in Palm Springs, California. It is 23,600 sq ft (2,190 m 2) in size. [1] The house was built for the American entertainers Bob and Dolores Hope and completed in 1979. The house is noted for its large undulating triangular roof, with a ...
Coachella Savings and Loan. Palm Springs Desert Museum. Emerson Stewart Williams, FAIA (November 15, 1909 – September 10, 2005) was a prolific Palm Springs, California -based architect whose distinctive modernist buildings, in the Mid-century modern style, significantly shaped the Coachella Valley 's architectural landscape and legacy.