page_title: Walter S. White
section_title: Notable works
hierarchical_section_title: Walter S. White / Notable works
caption_attribution_description: English: BUILT IN 1956 AND DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT, INVENTOR, AND INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER WALTER S. WHITE This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 16000093
context_page_description: Walter S. White was an American modernist architect and industrial designer who worked in the Coachella Valley, CA in the 1950s and the Colorado Springs, CO area in the 1960s. White is noted for influencing innovative roofing and window systems in early Palm Desert, CA architecture.
  Between 1933 and 1936 he attended San Bernardino High School. White worked for six months in 1937 for Harwell Hamilton Harris, followed by eight-months with Rudolf Schindler’s Los Angeles office during 1937-1938. White subsequently worked for Allen Kelly Rouff for six months between 1938 and 1939. Between 1939 and 1942, he worked for Win E. Wilson for two years and six months, helping to plan and design prefabricated war housing with a skin-stressed plywood panel system. In his papers, White recounts that over 8,000 of these units were constructed in the United States.
  For the remainder of the war, White was employed by the Douglass Aircraft Co. in El Segundo, California, working on machine tool design for four years and six months. In 1947 he moved from Los Angeles to Palm Springs where he worked for Clark & Frey Architects.
context_section_description: The Paulette Johnson (Herbert) House, The Alexander House, The Miles Bates House, The Wilcockson Residence, Kissing Camels Estates, pre-fab cabins (furnished by Sears & Roebuck) 
  The Dr. Franz Alexander House, at 1011 W. Cielo Dr. in Palm Springs, California, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
caption: Dr. Franz Alexander House, Palm Springs
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