Reid House by Bruce Rickard
A spy movie may be an unlikely foundation on which to base your “forever home,” but that’s exactly how it was for John and Judy Reid in 1961. They would go to extraordinary lengths to re-create the rusticated stonework of a house seen in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest.
The film’s Vandamm House was set on Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. But the residence was a work of fiction: its interiors were built on a soundstage at the MGM studios in Culver City, California, and its exteriors – including thick stone
