432 Hermosa Pl, Palm Springs, CA 92262 · Old Las Palmas
The Maurice Smith and Dinah Shore House stood in Palm Springs, where residential life grew alongside the city’s role as a winter retreat. After World War II, growing prosperity brought a building boom. Celebrities, industrialists, and other visitors increasingly chose the city for winter stays. Among the architects who shaped this residential landscape was Donald Wexler, who arrived in 1952 to work for William F. Cody. Within a year, he formed a partnership with Richard Harrison, whom he had met in Cody’s office. Their work explored ways to build for desert conditions. In 1961 and 1962, seven experimental steel houses were constructed for the Alexander Construction Company. Rising steel prices halted that experiment, but Wexler continued designing buildings suited to the desert climate.
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