Willam Dafoe's Rubber House is for Sale

Here in Ulster County, because of our easy access to New York City, we get a lot of celebs coming out here for a bit of country living. The celebrities we get as buyers usually demand absolute privacy using corporation names on office documents and meeting in absolute secrecy. The funny thing is that when it comes time to sell they use every branding tool available to them including telling the world who they are.

Among those celebrities is actor Willem Dafoe who is currently listed at 850,000 for his rubber-clad Modernist house located in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York. Dafoe has been twice nominated for an Academy Award for the movies "Platoon" in 1987 and "Shadow of the Vampire" in 2001. One of his latest work includes the part of the Green Goblin in "Spider-Man". Dafoe, whose primary residence is in Manhattan, first bought the home in 1988.

Prior to belonging to Willem Dafoe, a choreographer named Eugene Loring had the house built using specs that were to make the home blend into the landscape. The outer shell of the structure is made up of a thick skin of gray/black rubber material that was stretched over a more traditional wood frame exterior. The house still maintains a mirrored room originally used by Mr. Loring as a dance studio.

The home is not for everyone but if it is for you, I would love to show it to you.

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