Overview

This two-floor Spanish Colonial Revival apartment complex was an early resort destination in Palm Springs. It was located across Palm Canyon Drive from two-floor Spanish Colonial El Encanto Apartments.

Building History

Samuel M. Gehr (1901-1974) financed the Tahquitz Vista Apartments completed c. 1930. He sold what the Desert Sun newspaper called in 1935 "one of the finest apartment houses of Palm Springs" shortly after, c. 1933. In 1935, L.M. Rotham's Pacific Stores, Incorporated, bought the property. (See "Taquitz Vista Apartments Sold to Pacific Stores," Desert Sun of Palm Springs, California, no. 33, 03/22/1935, n.p.)

PCAD id: 20448