2164 N Milben Circle, Palm Springs, CA

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Racquet Club Estates

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Living Area :

1199 SF

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Year built :

1959

Property Description

Built in 1959 by developer Jack Meiselman, this two-bedroom, two-bath single-family 1,200 SF residence sits on a 10,890 SF cul-de-sac lot in the southern section of Racquet Club Estates. The floor plan features distinct bedroom zones separated by a galley kitchen, which is one of Meiselman’s signature design elements.

This house was originally built as a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom home; however, at some point, an owner removed a wall in one of the guest bedrooms to open it to the living room/dining room area. This bedroom is currently used as a TV room, den, or office, which expands the living area of the great room. This is a common adaptation of this floor plan, and the room can easily be converted back to a bedroom if a new owner wanted to restore the home’s original layout.

The living room is oriented around a south-facing wall of glass — floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding glass doors that open the interior directly to the rear patio and pool beyond. In Desert Modernism, glass isn’t just a window; it’s a design strategy that dissolves the boundary between inside and out, letting the desert landscape become part of the room. A fireplace anchors the living space from within, while a second fire feature — an exterior fire pit — extends the indoor-outdoor conversation into the rear yard.

The kidney-shaped pool is also an original, optional upgrade offered by Meiselman to homeowners.

The flooring is documented as a mix of tile and carpet. The floor plan indicates that the home has a dedicated laundry room off the garage. This is a nice feature, since most homes with this floor plan have the washer/dryer in the kitchen, which takes up valuable kitchen space. The galley kitchen configuration is consistent with Meiselman’s compact, efficient approach to residential planning.

What Makes This Home Special

Within the Registry’s documented Racquet Club Estates properties, this home stands out for its lot size and cul-de-sac position. At 10,890 SF, it’s bigger than most of the lots in Palm Springs, which average between 9,000-10,000 SF, and its position at the end of a cul-de-sac, which means a wider, more private rear yard than most comparable Meiselman addresses can claim. That rear and side yards are notably generous.

It’s also one of several 1959 Racquet Club Estates entries in the Registry, a vintage year that appears to represent a productive run for Meiselman in this neighborhood. This property helps fill out the picture of what Meiselman was building at the peak of the neighborhood’s development. The south-facing glazing strategy and the dual fireplace/fire pit configuration are worth noting as potentially original design features pending further verification.

Development and Neighborhood

Racquet Club Estates is highly represented in the Meiselman Registry — and for good reason. Meiselman developed over a dozen properties here. The neighborhood takes its name from the historic Racquet Club, the Hollywood-adjacent desert retreat that put Palm Springs on the map for a certain glamorous postwar crowd. Meiselman’s homes here weren’t intended to be celebrity estates — they were well-designed, efficiently planned residences built for people who wanted to live the desert modern life at a human scale.

Racquet Club Estates sits in the north-central part of Palm Springs, roughly bounded by Vista Chino to the south and the base of the San Jacinto foothills to the north. It’s a quiet, largely residential neighborhood that has remained relatively intact since the 1950s and early 1960s — which is part of why so many Meiselman properties here have survived in recognizable form. The cul-de-sac streets in the southern part of the neighborhood, where this home sits, tend to carry less traffic and offer a degree of privacy unusual for a city this close to a major commercial corridor.

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If this is your home, you’re sitting on a piece of Palm Springs architectural history — and we’d love to make it official. Claim your listing to get verified registry status, connect with the Meiselman community, and add your own story and documentation to the archive.