The restoration of a Bel Vista house by Albert Frey has earned homeowner Todd Hays the 2024 Palm Springs Modern Committee Architectural Preservation Award, presented in a ceremony on 19th October 2024. It's a celebration that comes right on time for the 2025 Palm Springs Modernism Week Preview that launches on the 24th.
One of 15 post-war homes designed by Frey (a key Palm Springs architect and modernist architecture proponent) in 1945 on a block near Sunrise Way and East Tachevah Drive (in partnership with developers Culver and Sallie Stevens Nichols), Bel Vista House at 1150 N. Calle Rolph is one of three that remains relatively intact. Hays bought and restored the other two. The homes are all identical but placed differently on each lot – essentially 'flipped and turned,' explains Hays.
