Bob Hope Residence is a house in Palm Springs, California. It was designed by John Lautner.
Location: Southridge, Palm Springs, California, United States
Verified facts
- Located in Southridge, Palm Springs
confidence 80/100 · 7 independent sources · SRC-0494, SRC-0495, SRC-3024, SRC-3691, SRC-3692, SRC-5348, SRC-0628 - Designed by John Lautner
confidence 80/100 · 5 independent sources · SRC-0496, SRC-0494, SRC-0627, SRC-0628, SRC-0629 - Built in 1979
confidence 80/100 · 7 independent sources · SRC-0496, SRC-0494, SRC-0627, SRC-3692, SRC-5348, SRC-5349, SRC-8939 - Architectural style: Mid-Century Modern
confidence 80/100 · 6 independent sources · SRC-0496, SRC-0495, SRC-0629, SRC-5349, SRC-8940, SRC-9187
Evidence & sources
- SRC-0494 — Visit Palm Springs — History of the famed Bob Hope House (Tier 3, tourism_authority; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-0495 — Modern Tours Palm Springs — Bob Hope House (Tier 3, tour_operator; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-0496 — Wikipedia — Hope Residence (Tier 3, encyclopedia; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-0627 — Wallpaper* — A guide to John Lautner: the architect who turned Palm Springs into a modernist mecca (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-0628 — Dezeen — John Lautner punctured Hope Residence's giant roof with a crater-like hole (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-0629 — Atomic Ranch — The Bob Hope House: A John Lautner-designed Mod Masterpiece, by Abigail Efird (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-3024 — Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD), University of Washington – Hope, Leslie Townes (Bob) and Dolores, House, Southridge, Palm Springs, CA (Tier 2, scholarship; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-3691 — wikipedia.org (Tier 3, reference; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-3692 — archive.org (Tier 3, reference; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-5348 — Rethinking The Future (Tier 2, press; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-5349 — Palm Desert Visitor Center (Tier 3, blog; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-8939 — Haute Living — Bob Hope's Lautner-Designed Palm Springs Home Listed for $45 Million (Tier 2, journalism; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-8940 — John Hart Real Estate — The HartBeat: Palm Springs Home Spotlight: The Bob Hope House Mounts the Peak of the Modernist Volcano (Tier 2, specialist_publication; retrieved June 2026)
- SRC-9187 — Design.tel — Bob Hope House [1979] (Tier 2, reference; retrieved June 2026)
How we verify
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personal information are structurally barred from publication. Last reviewed June 2026.