The Colony Palms Hotel began welcoming guests in 1936 under a different name: the Colonial House. Its builder was Al Wertheimer, a casino owner whose desert hotel would pass through several identities. In the late 1940s, Robert and Andrea Leeds Howard took possession and renamed it Howard Manor. The sequence of names tells a small history of Palm Springs hospitality: one property, successive owners, and a fresh introduction to each new generation of visitors. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Palms_Hotel
Source: Wikipedia, “Colony Palms Hotel”