About

At first there was one, and then there were four. William F. Cody, the influential desert modern architect who designed the Del Marco Hotel, L’Horizon Resort, and the Perlberg residence, was selected to design the expansion of the famous Palm Springs Racquet Club. Developer Paul Trousdale was chosen as builder and landscape architects Phil Shipley and Dudley Trudgett created the lush landscape with its meandering water feature that provides an oasis-like centerpiece. Cody designed delicate concrete block screen walls for privacy and flexible units that could be combined or rented separately. The club and hotel are long gone, but the 37 cottages that remain, comfortably seated in the serene landscape created by Shipley and Trudgett, reflect the vision of Cody.

Cody’s cottages are small in size but big in style.

Private patios with breeze-block resembling tennis nets and floor-to-ceiling sliding glass feature in each cottage. Exposed beams, paper-thin rooflines and large outdoor overhangs shield spaces from the desert sun, all Cody trademarks, can be seen throughout the property. The only thing missing are the tennis courts which once featured prominently at the original Racquet Club and the room service delivered direct from the clubhouse.

Unified by a love for mid-century architecture and outdoor life.

The cottages were originally intended as a serene escape from the legendary hum of the Palm Springs Racquet Club. While the club is long gone, tour guests can experience what it was like to step away from the boisterous, celebrity-filled landmark into a quiet and lush oasis with towering palm trees, curved pathways and meandering streams leading to an enormous swimming pool. Today’s homeowners at Racquet Club Cottages West enjoy this intimate enclave, rarely seen by outsiders and are happy to share it with visitors during Modernism Week.