History
Constructed in 1956 and originally built as an apartment house – a ‘fireproof’ all-steel residential building named Stuart Manor – Limón is one of the most unique buildings in Palm Springs. The property was operated as individual residential apartments until being reborn as Limón.
Fans of the historic former Town and Country Restaurant located in downtown Palm Springs will be interested to know that its owner and builder, Malcolm Clarke Sr., also built this building. Clarke was mentioned in an unclassified FBI profile of Frank Sinatra as one of Old Blue Eyes’ business associates. They both owned an interest in the Sands.
Constructed in 1956 and originally built as an apartment house – a ‘fireproof’ all-steel residential building named Stuart Manor – Limón is one of the most unique buildings in Palm Springs. The property was operated as individual residential apartments until being reborn as Limón.
Fans of the historic former Town and Country Restaurant located in downtown Palm Springs will be interested to know that its owner and builder, Malcolm Clarke Sr., also built this building. Clarke was mentioned in an unclassified FBI profile of Frank Sinatra as one of Old Blue Eyes’ business associates. They both owned an interest in the Sands.
Constructed in 1956 and originally built as an apartment house – a ‘fireproof’ all-steel residential building named Stuart Manor – Limón is one of the most unique buildings in Palm Springs. The property was operated as individual residential apartments until being reborn as Limón.
Fans of the historic former Town and Country Restaurant located in downtown Palm Springs will be interested to know that its owner and builder, Malcolm Clarke Sr., also built this building. Clarke was mentioned in an unclassified FBI profile of Frank Sinatra as one of Old Blue Eyes’ business associates. They both owned an interest in the Sands.
Quoting from a Chicago Crime Commission report from 1954, the file described Clarke as “once a partner of the notorious Capone gangster, Charles Gioe, in a Chicago Loop gambling pay-off establishment.” In the early 1960s he was a key figure in a Los Angeles bookmaking probe, but the Palm Springs vice squad chief at the time told the Desert Sun “…to our knowledge he has kept his nose clean here.”
Late ’60s-era Desert Sun articles described Clarke as a “well-known Palm Springs resident” who managed a reservations office for the now-defunct Las Vegas Dunes hotel across from the Chi Chi Club in Palm Springs.
Quoting from a Chicago Crime Commission report from 1954, the file described Clarke as “once a partner of the notorious Capone gangster, Charles Gioe, in a Chicago Loop gambling pay-off establishment.” In the early 1960s he was a key figure in a Los Angeles bookmaking probe, but the Palm Springs vice squad chief at the time told the Desert Sun “…to our knowledge he has kept his nose clean here.”
Late ’60s-era Desert Sun articles described Clarke as a “well-known Palm Springs resident” who managed a reservations office for the now-defunct Las Vegas Dunes hotel across from the Chi Chi Club in Palm Springs.
Quoting from a Chicago Crime Commission report from 1954, the file described Clarke as “once a partner of the notorious Capone gangster, Charles Gioe, in a Chicago Loop gambling pay-off establishment.” In the early 1960s he was a key figure in a Los Angeles bookmaking probe, but the Palm Springs vice squad chief at the time told the Desert Sun “…to our knowledge he has kept his nose clean here.”
Late ’60s-era Desert Sun articles described Clarke as a “well-known Palm Springs resident” who managed a reservations office for the now-defunct Las Vegas Dunes hotel across from the Chi Chi Club in Palm Springs.