Lange puts Stillwater house back on market

Chitose Suzuki, Associated Press - Ap

Jessica Lange

Stillwater has lost its "real" feel and has become "yuppified," Lange says.

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Last update: July 24, 2008 - 11:31 PM

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The Stillwater home owned by Hollywood couple Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard is back on the market for just a smidge under $2 million.

The agency handling sale of the property, where the couple no longer lives, says in the online listing that the Victorian-style home "has been remarkably renovated and preserved."

The home, built in 1892, has a new in-ground pool and guesthouse and includes "artistically inspired gardens and grounds" and offers "a breathtaking St. Croix River Valley view."

The sellers are asking $1.95 million for the house, which sits on 2.5 acres. It has four bedrooms and 4.5 baths. The couple initially tried to sell the home in 2004 at $3.3 million. By the end of 2005, the price was down to $1.995 million, but it still didn't move.

They raised three children in the house for nine years after buying the former bed and breakfast in 1994 for $415,000.

In an interview early this year with the New York Daily News, Lange lamented the changes she saw in her former part-time home.

"When we first moved to Stillwater, it still felt like a real place. It had a downtown with a hardware store, a furniture store, a clothing store," said Lange, who grew up in Cloquet, Minn.

"Now it's all gift shops and these terrible condominiums," she added. "It was a little town with a great deal of character. Everything gets yuppified, I guess."

Lange told the Daily News that she and Shepard still own a cabin in Duluth.

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