Ex Alt-Rockers Revive a Midcentury Gem Near Palm Springs—and Find it May Be a Lost Masterpiece

Steve Jocz and Jessy Moss make the case that their 1960s home is a forgotten William F. Cody design.
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No one would have blamed Jessy Moss and her husband, Steve Jocz, for putting the long-suffering 1961 house in Indian Wells, California, out of its misery. "Knock it over and build your Tuscan palace," Steve says, recalling the local sentiment toward the bank-owned eyesore, which had endured half a century of slapdash remodels, absentee landlords, and foreclosures. 

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