Gerald Ford’s Retirement Home, California

Gerald Ford died in 2006, at the desert home he had built in 1977, with his wife. He was 93 years old. The home was on the 13th hole of the Thunderbird Country Club, in Rancho Mirage, California, near Palm Springs. The couple also owned a large ski chalet on the slopes of Vail, Colorado. He is buried at the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, and when his wife, Betty Ford, died in 2011, she joined him there. The house has been sold and is privately owned and occupied, and appreciated as a penultimate example of Palm Springs Modernism.