2190 E Desert Palms Drive, Palm Springs, CA

Property Description

This 2,245-square-foot residence at 2190 E Desert Palms Drive was developed by Jack Meiselman in 1955 as part of his early residential work in the Sunrise Park neighborhood. The four-bedroom, four-bath layout — including an exterior bathroom that serves the pool area directly — reflects a configuration well-suited to the social aspect of desert living, where the outdoors isn’t an afterthought but an extension of the floor plan itself.

The relationship between interior and exterior is where this home is most architecturally developed. Full-width disappearing pocket sliders dissolve the boundary between the living areas and the covered outdoor space, a move that was groundbreaking in 1955 and is still relevant and practical today. The covered sitting area, outdoor kitchen, and pool zone read as an outdoor room — functional in every season, and meaningfully connected to the interior rather than appended to it.

It’s unclear if the terrazzo tile flooring throughout the interior is original or an update. That’s significant: terrazzo was a Meiselman-era hallmark, and its presence here is a material thread back to the home’s original construction that needs to be verified. The kitchen has been expanded with a dedicated prep room adjacent to the main cooking area, a practical addition that doesn’t compromise the kitchen’s open character.

The home has undergone a substantial renovation, the scope of which isn’t fully documented in the available data we have. Visible modifications include the installation of an outdoor kitchen, updated interior finishes, and a leased solar system. The original floor plan configuration relative to the current four-bedroom layout is also unverified, so it’s unclear if a fourth bedroom was added later.

Development and Neighborhood Context

Sunrise Park occupies the eastern flank of central Palm Springs, developed largely through the 1950s and into the early 1960s. Meiselman built throughout this neighborhood during that period, and properties here tend to share the low-profile, single-story massing and indoor-outdoor planning logic that defined his residential output. Lot sizes in Sunrise Park are generous by Palm Springs standards — this parcel at 12,202 square feet (approximately 0.28 acres) is consistent with the neighborhood’s spacious character.

The neighborhood sits east of the downtown core and north of East Palm Canyon, bordered by the natural desert edge that gives Sunrise Park its open, uncrowded feel. Development-era homes here were built for year-round habitation, not solely as seasonal retreats, which partly explains the larger lot footprints and more expansive interior programs compared to some of the denser Meiselman tracts elsewhere in the valley.

As a 1955 construction, this property sits toward the earlier end of Meiselman’s Sunrise Park work, predating much of the neighborhood’s buildout. That makes it relevant to any study of how Meiselman’s residential approach evolved across the decade — and it underscores the preservation value of its surviving original materials.

Is This Your Home?

If you own 2190 E Desert Palms Drive, the Registry wants to hear from you. Homes this early in the Meiselman timeline are exactly where the most important history lives — and homeowners often hold details, documents, and stories that exist nowhere else. Claim this listing and help us get the record right on one of the most historically compelling addresses in the archive.