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Morelli House from the Desert Inn Country Club(702)822-6536http://www.jllv.org/lv/npo.jsp?pg=news&article=528 861 Bridger Avenue Las Vegas, NV 89101-5539 at the corner of 9th - Junior League of Las Vegas |
More about Morelli House from the Desert Inn Country Club:
Once upon a time, the homes around the Desert Inn Golf Course were the end all and be all of life in Las Vegas. It's where I wanted to retire someday: in a pristine community filled to the brim with high end architectural Modern homes. Then Steve Wynn bought it - evicted all the owners and tore them all down, but one. The Junior League rescued this home.From the Junior League Website:
"The Morelli House is a prime example of mid-century modern residential architecture. Basically rectangular in plan, the overall appearance of the Morelli House is long and low, melding into the landscape. The flat roof is covered with crushed white rock and exposed redwood beams support the widely overhanging eaves. In several places along the front of the building, walls are covered with stucco and screened with decorative openwork cement blocks that are topped by a row of windows.
"The wall of the rear façade consists of the vertical wood on the outside of the kitchen and a small ell containing the master bedroom that extends a few feet past the rear wall. In between the bedroom and kitchen is a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows that serve as the living room wall. Four futuristic metal light fixtures hang from the beams, with smaller matching sconces attached to the metal framework of the windows. With the exception of the redwood double entry doors, all doors are full glass panels or sliding glass doors.
"The home's interior is a paragon of period appointments, all of which have been kept in original condition, down to the instruction books for the kitchen appliances. The roughly 3,300 square-foot house is laid out in an open floor plan, with two bedrooms, a living/dining area, and a kitchen/family room.
"The kitchen represents the height of the 1950's modernity, with nearly every conceivable built-in appliance. The plans for the kitchen appointments detail the redwood cabinets, built-in lazy Susan, spice cabinet, and teacart, and the breakfast bar with a Formica top. The oven is a double copper-tone wall unit, and the counter-top range has a large stainless steel hood above it. The light fixtures in the kitchen are a drop-style with opaque egg-shaped, white-glass globes.
"The double entry doors, surrounded by colored art-glass panels in a raindrop design, lead into an open foyer, separated from the dining/living room by a redwood panel that houses a coat closet and a storage closet. On the opposite side of the closets is a built-in redwood china cabinet that delineates the dining area, which is an extension of the living room. The most prominent feature in the living room is the fireplace featuring a raised "floating" marble-topped hearth with a massive hammered copper hood, extending to the ceiling."
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Special Ratings: See it SometimesEra: 1950s | 1960s
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Wilber Clark's Desert Inn
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