2222 E Park Drive, Palm Springs, CA

Property Description

Built in 1954, this 2,094-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath home is one of the largest single-family residences attributed to Jack Meiselman’s development work in the Coachella Valley. Sited on a 9,148-square-foot lot in Sunrise Park — one of Palm Springs’ mid-century residential neighborhoods — the home occupies a walled and gated parcel with a western exposure toward the San Jacinto Mountains.

The living room anchors the plan, organized around a floor-to-ceiling stacked-stone fireplace and vaulted beamed ceilings — a structural gesture that reads as both spatially generous and deliberately dramatic. Vaulted ceilings in Desert Modernism aren’t just about height; they’re about how the roofline responds to the sky and the heat, drawing the eye upward and pulling light through the volume in ways that a flat ceiling simply can’t. The western orientation toward the mountains gives the living spaces a late-afternoon light quality that’s essentially a free amenity in the desert.

The floor plan currently features three bedrooms and three baths, with an additional bonus room that the current configuration treats as an office—a flexible fourth space that the original plan may or may not have designated differently. The flooring throughout is a combination of tile and bamboo, neither of which is original to a 1954 construction.

Later modifications include dual-paned energy-efficient windows, updated appliances, and a re-roofed structure. The outdoor living area includes a built-in BBQ and pool. Desert landscaping covers the grounds.

What Makes This Home Special

At 2,094 square feet, this is one of the larger single-family homes documented in the Meiselman Registry. Most Meiselman homes run between 1,100 and 1,800 SF, so this would represent a scale that makes this home somewhat unique.

The 1954 build date is equally notable. A 1954 home in Sunrise Park would place this property right at the start of Meiselman’s documented development activity in Palm Springs, at a moment when the neighborhood was first being shaped by the mid-century builders and architects who would define the city’s architectural identity. That’s a remarkable provenance to carry,

Neighborhood

This property sits as a single-family home in Sunrise Park, a Palm Springs neighborhood that developed incrementally through the 1950s and 1960s rather than as a single master-planned community. That context matters: Sunrise Park attracted multiple developers and architects during its formation years, including the Alexanders, William Krisel, and Jack Meiselman, making it one of the more architecturally diverse midcentury modern residential areas in the city.

Sunrise Park occupies the eastern central portion of Palm Springs, roughly bounded by Sunrise Way to the west and bounded to the south by the Tahquitz Creek corridor. It’s a neighborhood of mostly single-family homes on generously sized lots, many with western mountain exposure — a geographic advantage that mid-century builders knew how to exploit and that gives the area a particular character at golden hour that’s hard to replicate elsewhere in the valley.

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