R. M. Schindler designs first modern building in the desert: a cabin for Paul and Betty Popenoe in Coachella

Oasis Hotel, a Modern masterpiece in slip-form concrete, designed by Lloyd Wright

El Mirador Hotel opens on New Year’s Eve

William Gray Purcell builds cubist modern house

Albert Frey, with New York partner A. Lawrence Kocher, designs International Style Kocher-Samson office building

Avant garde all-concrete Community Church on Baristo Road built, designed by Charles Tanner

La Plaza Shopping Center, designed by Harry Williams, introduced as one of the first car-oriented shopping centers in America

Eric Webster and Adrian Wilson design streamline/nautical Moderne “Ship of the Desert”

Richard Neutra designs Grace Lewis Miller house that includes her Mensendieck posture therapy studio

John Porter Clark builds International Style house for his family on former El Mirador golf course

Palm Springs Women’s Club designed by John Porter Clark

Welwood Murray Library designed by John Porter Clark

Albert Frey builds house for famed industrial designer Raymond Loewy in what is becoming the Desert Modern architectural style that he and others are pioneering

Neutra’s Kaufmann house, where photographer Julius Shulman would take one of his most famous photographs, built on West Vista Chino

E. Stewart Williams designs Frank Sinatra house

Maryon Toole House designed by R. M. Schindler in Palm Desert

William F. Cody designs the Del Marcos Motel, which wins an AIA prize

Mountainside additions to the Tennis Club designed by architects A. Quincy Jones and Paul R. Williams

Town & Country Center built in the Late Moderne style with design by A. Quincy Jones and Paul R. Williams

The Oasis Commercial Building, an early International Style structure, designed by E. Stewart Williams and erected adjacent to Lloyd Wright’s Oasis Hotel tower. Interiors by Paul R. Williams

Albert Frey remodels the house he built for himself in 1940 and adds a futuristic, spaceship-like second story

Edris House, designed by E. Stewart Williams, completed

Ocotillo Lodge, a collaboration between the Alexander Company and the architectural firm of William “Bill” Krisel and Dan Saxon Palmer, opens

Palm Springs City Hall, designed by Albert Frey and John Porter Clark and the firm of Williams, Williams & Williams, is built

Twin Palms, tract homes built for the Alexander Construction Company, designed by William Krisel of Palmer and Krisel. Designs establish template for affordable desert modern homes

William Cody’s Huddle’s Springs restaurant, a superior example of Googie style, opens

William Pereira and Charles Luckman design Robinson’s Department Store

Sandpiper condominium development opens in Palm Desert with architecture and landscape designs by William Krisel

Santa Fe Federal Savings Building by E. Stewart Williams completed

City National Bank (now Bank of America) opens, designed by Rudy Baumfeld of Victor Gruen Associates. Homage to Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel built five years earlier

Construction begins on Spa Bathhouse and Hotel designed by architects Cody, Wexler, Harrison and Koenig

E. Stewart Williams designs Coachella Valley Savings and Loan #3

Alpha Beta Shopping Center built, designed by Albert Frey and Robson Chambers

666 Palm Canyon Drive building designed by Howard and Lawrence Lapham

William Cody designs futuristic gas station on North Palm Canyon

Seven experimental Alexander steel houses built, some with folded plate roofs, with designs by Donald Wexler

House of Tomorrow designed by Palmer and Krisel for Bob Alexander in Las Palmas completed. Best known as Elvis honeymoon hideaway

Maslon house, designed by Richard Neutra, completed at Tamarisk Country Club in Rancho Mirage

Albert Frey builds another house for himself on a steep lot with a boulder as a room divider and practical aluminum roof

Tramway gas station, designed by Albert Frey and Robson Chambers, built on North Palm Canyon

Elrod House, famed for its part in the James Bond film, Diamonds are Forever, designed by John Lautner

St. Theresa Parish Church designed by William Cody

Max Palevsky House designed by Craig Ellwood

John Lautner designs turtle-shell roofed Bob Hope House

Palm Springs Library Center designed by William Cody

Palm Springs Desert Museum opens, designed by E. Stewart Williams

Lowslung organic Charthouse restaurant opens, designed by Kendrick Bangs Kellogg

Marmol Radziner Associates restores Neutra’s Kaufmann House

New and replica designs of mid-century modern houses appear in the desert