Paradise Palms

Ground broke in March 1960 on a project first planned for about 300 homes and expanded to roughly 1,000 residences across about 720 acres, with most homes built between 1960 and 1965. The developers were Las Vegas' Paradise Development, the firm of Irwin Molasky and Merv Adelson, and the design team paired local architect Hugh Taylor with Southern California modernists Dan Palmer and William Krisel, who designed hundreds of the homes themselves.

The architecture is the point: post-and-beam mid-century moderns with flat, butterfly, gable, and folded-plate roofs, clerestory windows, and facades of decorative block and stone. The streets curve through the plan around parks and open space, a genuinely new idea for Las Vegas at the time. In 2021 the neighborhood received a historic overlay district designation, the first in Clark County, later expanded to cover hundreds more homes.

Today Paradise Palms sits between Desert Inn and Flamingo roads, east of Maryland Parkway and behind the Boulevard Mall, bordering the Las Vegas National Golf Course. The revival is real: owners renovate original-condition homes with era-appropriate materials, the neighborhood draws national design coverage, and regular mid-century house tours celebrate the stock. It is one of the few places in the valley where a 60-year-old modern home still reads as fresh.