2171 E Amado Rd., Palm Springs, CA

Property Description

This 1,928-square-foot residence at 2171 E Amado Road was developed by Jack Meiselman in 1957 and represents a well-preserved example of his early Desert Modernism work in the Sunrise Park neighborhood. The three-bedroom, two-bath floor plan appears to have not been altered from its original configuration.

The architectural language here is characteristic of Meiselman’s residential program: clerestory windows admit diffuse high light while preserving wall surface below, an indoor atrium anchors the interior with a direct relationship to the sky, and floor-to-ceiling glazing along the rear elevation dissolves the boundary between the main living areas and the exterior patio. That indoor-outdoor continuity was central to Meiselman’s Desert Modernism thesis — the house isn’t just adjacent to the landscape, it folds into it. A wood-burning fireplace in the living room grounds the open-plan space and reinforces the domestic scale.

What makes this house unique in the Registry’s archive is that it is the only one to have an atrium in the hallway as you enter the front door. We don’t know whether that is original or whether a subsequent owner added it later. Either way, it’s a great addition to the home and makes it truly unique.

The open kitchen, which looks out into the living room, has been updated with stainless steel appliances and Caesarstone countertops, and a breakfast bar connects it to an adjacent family room. A separate dining room preserves the original program’s distinction between casual and formal eating areas. The pool and spa appear to have been updated as part of the same renovation scope; the extent and date of those modifications are unverified.

The property is equipped with owned photovoltaic solar and two evaporative cooling systems supplementing the central HVAC — a retrofit combination that reflects contemporary energy practice adapted to a desert climate building stock.

Development and Neighborhood Context

Sunrise Park occupies the eastern edge of central Palm Springs, developed primarily through the late 1950s and into the 1960s as residential demand expanded beyond the city’s earlier resort-adjacent tracts. The neighborhood’s street grid and lot sizes reflect mid-century single-family suburban planning at a scale well-suited to the Meiselman residential typology — generous lots, low profiles, and site plans designed to maximize privacy and solar orientation.

Within the broader Meiselman archive, Sunrise Park properties from the 1957–1960 period document an early phase of his Palm Springs residential output, before the larger planned community developments of the early 1960s defined his legacy more publicly. The Amado Road parcel at 10,454 square feet is notably generous, allowing for the walled garden, pool envelope, and desert landscaping that the original floor plan’s glazing strategy was clearly designed to address.

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