The Vandamm House

In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock put a cantilevered house above Mount Rushmore in North by Northwest, and people have been looking for it ever since. For more than six decades it existed only on film. It has now been built, once, on a ridgeline within Pinnacle, the gated enclave inside Promontory Club in Park City.

The engineering is what makes it more than a homage. Architects Michael Upwall and John Boccardo worked with Midway Construction and Canyons Structural Engineering on a structural system closer to infrastructure than to a house. More than five million dollars went into the foundation alone: post-tension steel of the kind used in bridges and skyscrapers, four-foot concrete beams drilled into granite, and a post-tension concrete foundation. Together they carry a 40-foot cantilever that holds the glass-walled great room in open air above the valley, with views in every direction.

Arrival follows Frank Lloyd Wright: a low walnut entry ceiling first, then the mountains. The interiors hold the late 1950s without imitating them. Marvin Signature Ultimate windows run mostly floor to ceiling. There is more than a million dollars of custom walnut cabinetry, Heath Ceramics tile handmade in Sausalito, grass cloth, cork, and vibrant wallpaper in a warm period palette. The Heroic Sunburst entry doors were commissioned from Forms+Surfaces in Santa Barbara. The kitchens carry Sub-Zero, Wolf, and Miele. The mid-century furnishings and artwork, many of them restored originals, are available with the purchase, so the home can be acquired complete.

Across 13,279 square feet, the house lives like a private resort. There is a 75-foot lap pool eight feet deep, an 18-seat theater under a constellation ceiling, a half-circle wet bar that opens through glass to the pool terrace, and a wellness wing with steam, infrared sauna, and gym. Three kitchens include one on the top level serving the guest wing and an al fresco dining terrace. Six en-suite bedrooms are each pre-wired for supplemental oxygen, and an elevator serves all three floors.

Below is the space collectors will ask about first: an 8,000-square-foot clear-span automotive gallery with no interior columns, lit like a showroom and ventilated to clear exhaust when cars are started. In all, 11,347 square feet of garage holds forty-five to fifty cars, or fifteen to twenty in a showroom layout, with a mechanics area, detailing bay, EV charging, and radiant floors.

Two security gates stand between the road and the front door, yet downtown Park City and Deer Valley are 15 minutes away, and Salt Lake City International and the private Heber Valley Airport are 35. There is only one Vandamm House with an address. This is it.