Editing Desert Hot Springs, California (section)

==Modernist architecture==
At one time, there were 43 small spas (6 to 10 guest rooms) in the city. Some were located atop the hot water aquifer on [[List of Riverside County, California, placename etymologies#Miracle Hill|Miracle Hill]], where Cabot Yerxa, one of the early settlers, lived. His home is now Cabot's Pueblo Museum. Across the street is Miracle Manor Retreat, built in 1949, one of the first spas in town. It was built by the Martin Family, who eventually sold it in 1981 to a local legend, Lois Blackhill. Upon her death in 1996, her family sold it in 1997 to two longtime regulars and close friends of Blackhill's, trans-media designer [[April Greiman]] and architect-educator [[Michael Rotondi]], who restored it to its original state. The Desert Hot Springs Motel, designed by architect [[John Lautner]] is located just outside the city limits. The motel was purchased and restored in 2000 by Steven Lowe.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.johnlautner.org/Deserthotsprings.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030413175310/http://www.johnlautner.org/Deserthotsprings.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 13, 2003|title=John Lautner Foundation: Desert Hot Springs Motel|date=April 13, 2003|access-date=February 6, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.palmspringslife.com/Palm-Springs-Life/February-2012/Deja-New/ |title=Hipsters, Hollywood types, and architecture buffs are checking into the only hotel designed by John Lautner {{ndash}} in Desert Hot Springs |access-date=October 15, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019041002/http://www.palmspringslife.com/Palm-Springs-Life/February-2012/Deja-New/ |archive-date=October 19, 2014}}</ref>

In 2006 the architectural firm of [[Marmol Radziner|Marmol Radziner + Associates]] designed a [[sustainable]], [[modernist]] [[prefabricated building|prefab]] home featured in the November 2006 issue of ''[[Dwell (magazine)|Dwell]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Anderton |first1=Frances |title=Desert Utopia |magazine=[[Dwell (magazine)|Dwell]] |date=November 2006 |url=https://www.dwell.com/article/desert-utopia-526c857d |access-date=January 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029041558/http://www.dwell.com/homes/prefab/4239671.html |archive-date=October 29, 2007 |url-status=live}}(Originally published in November 2006, identical article reprinted with date of January 18, 2009).{{cbignore}}</ref> The home served as a [[prototype (disambiguation)|prototype]] for the firm's efforts to develop a series of prefab homes.