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  • 12Adults
  • 06Bedrooms
  • 06Bathrooms
  • 01Tennis court
The front of the house at twilight, the chevron oak door lit from within between white columns, under a pink sky.

Movie Colony, Palm Springs

The Movie Colony,
with a park
across the road.

  • 08Public courts
  • 22Acre park
  • 02Parks within walking distance
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The house sits in the Movie Colony, the residential neighborhood a few minutes north of the center of Palm Springs, long associated with the city’s Hollywood era. Ruth Hardy Park, named for one of the city’s founding council members, is directly across the road. Frances Stevens Park is about a ten minute walk. Shopping, museums, golf and the art museum are all close, and none of them are on the doorstep.

The house from across the street behind a hedge.
The house from the street under a tall sky.

Movie Colony, Palm Springs

Palm Springs’ historic Movie Colony, long associated with the city’s Hollywood era.

08

Public courts across the road

The house has a court of its own. Ruth Hardy Park has eight more, public and free.

The full private tennis court, its blue surface and green surround set among palms below the mountains.

22

Acres

Ruth Hardy Park, directly across the road.

08

Public tennis courts

03

Sand volleyball courts

04

Acres

Frances Stevens Park, about a ten minute walk.

The whole property from the air: a full private tennis court, the house with its terracotta roof and colonnade, the pool, and the Coachella valley beyond.
01The neighborhood from the air
The house from the drive, its white walls and terracotta roof behind a clipped hedge.
02The street
The pool and the house at twilight, bougainvillea in flower and the sky turning pink behind the trees.
03The house at night
The outdoor dining table under the colonnade, with the mountains between the columns.
04The mountain ridge
The covered terrace with teak sofas facing an outdoor fireplace set in plaster.
05The garden

01/05

Two seasons, in the numbers

MonthLowHighDays above 100
Jan4871none
Feb5074none
Mar5481none
Apr59872
May66959
Jun7310422
Jul7910929
Aug8010829
Sep7410221
Oct65914
Nov5379none
Dec4669none

Average daily high and the number of days above one hundred degrees, from the 1991 to 2020 normals recorded at Palm Springs Regional Airport. The pool is heated through the cool half and chilled through the hot one, which is the whole reason it works in both.

02

Seasons, both usable

The pool is heated through the cool half and chilled through the hot one.

The tennis court seen over its fence, with palms and the mountains behind.

The year

When things
happen.

January
Palm Springs International Film Festival
February
Modernism Week, eleven days of mid century architecture
Feb to March
BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells
April
Coachella, across two weekends
April
Stagecoach, the weekend after Coachella
October
Modernism Week returns for four days
November
Greater Palm Springs Pride

Festival weekends change how long every drive takes, and the roads around the polo grounds in April are the clearest example. Coachella tells its own attendees not to trust their satellite navigation.

Loungers on the lawn beside the pool, with palms and the mountains behind.
A hanging swing seat on the lawn under a broad tree, the mountains beyond the hedge.

Nearby

What is
around it.

  • Palm Springs Aerial Tramway

    Ten minutes, six thousand feet

    The rotating car climbs from 2,643 feet to 8,516 feet in about ten minutes. The mountain station is typically thirty to forty degrees cooler than the desert floor, with more than fifty miles of trails in Mount San Jacinto State Park at the top. There is snow up there most years between November and April.

    Closed for annual maintenance for roughly a month each early autumn.

  • Indian Canyons

    Palm, Andreas and Murray

    Three canyons on Agua Caliente land, on one admission, with the largest California fan palm oasis in the world. Open daily from early October to early July, and Friday to Sunday only through the hottest months.

    Closes periodically for tribal ceremonies.

  • Palm Springs Art Museum

    Closed Monday to Wednesday

    Open Thursday from noon until eight and Friday to Sunday from ten until five. Admission is free every Thursday evening from five until eight, and under eighteens are free at all times. The Architecture and Design Center occupies E. Stewart Williams’ 1961 bank building.

The length of the pool with the covered terrace and the house behind it.
The long outdoor table under the colonnade with the pool alongside.
The courtyard with the pool, the fire pit and the retractable awning above the terrace.

  • VillageFest

    Every Thursday, all year

    Palm Canyon Drive closes to traffic for about three blocks and fills with more than a hundred and eighty stalls. Six until ten from October to May, seven until ten through the summer.

  • Joshua Tree National Park

    About forty miles to the west entrance

    Roughly an hour of driving to the entrance at Joshua Tree village, which is the closest of the three. The park service is explicit that you should not rely on satellite navigation to find the entrances.

  • Golf

    Over a hundred courses

    The Coachella Valley carries more than a hundred golf courses, a good number of them within twenty minutes of the house.

The tennis court from the baseline, the net and the far court clear under a wide sky.
The entrance under the colonnade, the chevron oak door set between white columns.

Being a good neighbor

A street,
not a strip.

  • No music or amplified sound outdoors at any time. Sound must stay inside the house and must not be audible at the property line.
  • Quiet time is between 10:00 PM and 10:00 AM.
  • One guest vehicle per bedroom overnight. Use the garage and the driveway first, and never block a neighbor’s driveway.
  • No parties and no events. The house is registered as a vacation rental, not an event venue.
Blue hour. The pool lit from within, the sunken fire pit alight, and the house glowing along one side of the courtyard.

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