60 DIGS.NET
| 8.20.2021
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HERE IS NOTHING like staying in a historic property that
makes you wonder if walls could talk. Casa Cody is one
of these properties. The boutique hotel was founded
in the 1920s when Hollywood pioneer Harriet Cody
— the cousin of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody — arrived
in Palm Springs by wagon with her architect husband
Harold Bryant Cody. The couple decided to build a home on a
1.5-acre piece of land with views of the San Jacinto Mountains,
which soon became the favorite hotel of renowned creatives
such as English actor, filmmaker and composer Charlie Chaplin;
American opera singer Lawrence Tibbett; and French-born
novelist Anaïs Nin. For years, these celebrities used to spend
time in Casa Cody, especially in the two-bedroom, one-bath-
room Adobe House where a stage was built and Tibbett's piano
was kept below for performances and parties.
With a total of 30 rooms — many of which have a kitchenette
or a full kitchen, a private patio and a fireplace — surrounded by
courtyards and lawns with bougainvillea, native plantings and
fruit trees, the hotel comprises standard studios and suites, as
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