The Koerner House is a historic building located in

Palm Springs, California Palm Springs (Cahuilla: ''Séc-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley. The city covers approximately , making it the largest city in Riverside County by land a ...

. The house was designed in 1955 for the Vancouver-based couple of

Leon Koerner Leon Joseph Koerner (May 24, 1892 – September 26, 1972) was a Czechoslovakian-born industrialist and philanthropist in British Columbia. He was born in Nový Hrozenkov in what is now the Czech Republic and was educated at the Export Academy ...

and Thea Koerner. The house is a fine example of the residences that master architect

E. Stewart Williams Emerson Stewart Williams, FAIA (November 15, 1909 – September 10, 2005) was a prolific Palm Springs, California-based architect whose distinctive modernist buildings, in the Mid-century modern style, significantly shaped the Coachella Val ...

designed between 1947 and the end of the 1960s. The single-story structure features a shed roof, deep overhangs, and large glass surface areas with sliding glass doors that facilitate its indoor-outdoor flow. He also integrated natural wood that was utilized for its

post-and-beam construction Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

, board-and-batten cladding, interior cabinets, closets and built-in furniture. The landscaping was designed by Eckbo, Royston and Williams. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

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Houses completed in 1955 Buildings and structures in Palm Springs, California National Register of Historic Places in Riverside County, California Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California Modernist architecture in California E. Stewart Williams buildings 1955 establishments in California {{California-struct-stub