The Alexander House was built in 1957 by Alexander Construction Company as part of their pioneering tract housing development in Palm Springs, designed by the architectural partnership of Palmer & Krisel. The house was contemporary with the first Twin Palms tract, representing the Alexander company's commitment to bringing high-design modernism to the speculative housing market. William Krisel's design approach applied custom-home sophistication to mass production, creating individually distinctive houses within a systematized building process.
The house demonstrates the full Palmer & Krisel vocabulary developed for the Alexander tracts: post-and-beam construction, varied roofline, clerestory windows, walls of glass, decorative breeze block, an open carport, and a swimming pool. These elements combined to create the indoor-outdoor living experience that defined Palm Springs residential modernism while remaining economically viable for tract development.
