Dinah Shore’s iconic Palm Springs estate was built in 1963, the year she stopped hosting The Dinah Shore Show. She commissioned Donald Wexler, a modernist architect prolific in the Palm Springs area to design the house. The 7000 sq ft home sits on 1.4 acres in Old Las Palmas, a mid-century residential area in central Palm Springs. Less famous than some of its neighbouring estates, like Richard Neutra’s Kauffman House (Wexler worked for Neutra), the generous scale of the property epitomises Palm Springs-modern desert living – beautifully captured in this Julius Schulman photograph – and would have afforded Ms. Shore, one of Palm Springs more famous LGBT residents, the privacy and freedom she sought in the desert.