After wrapping up The River Tour in September 1981, Springsteen moved right into a rented farmhouse on a reservoir in Colts Neck, New Jersey. “I didn’t exit a lot,” he stated of that interval, per Ochs. “And for some motive I simply began to write down.” Inside weeks, he had written the songs that might make up his 1982 acoustic album Nebraska. In January 1982, he hunkered down in one of many residence’s bedrooms and commenced recording what was initially meant as a demo (however ended up being the album’s last recording). This era is the main focus of the biopic Ship Me From Nowhere, and the pad was recreated inside one other New Jersey home for filming. In 2023, Springsteen revisited the unique residence, which nonetheless had the identical orange shag carpet because it did throughout his tenancy—a function that he stated ended up serving to the room’s acoustics: “Not solely was it lovely to have a look at, it got here in helpful!”

Hollywood Hills residence

As seen in Ship Me From Nowhere, Springsteen purchased a small home within the Hollywood Hills for a contemporary begin after pouring his soul into making Nebraska. In keeping with fan lore, the storage was transformed right into a recording studio. The musician appears to allude to the dwelling in his 1992 tune, “57 Channels (And Nothin’ On),” which opens with the tongue-in-cheek traces, “I purchased a bourgeois home within the Hollywood Hills / With a truckload of hundred thousand greenback payments.” Information point out that he paid $515,000 for the property in 1982 and offloaded it in 2003 for $1.1 million. The itemizing description for the roughly 2,000-square-foot residence advertises its starry previous; in 2023, it requested $13,500 a month in hire.

Rumson mansion

In November 1983, Springsteen purchased a 6,000-square-foot residence in Rumson, New Jersey, the place he constructed a house studio. Set on 7.4 acres, the 1917-built dwelling was coated in vines and surrounded by manicured lawns, mature timber, and a backyard, per Mansion World. “The home was a rambling previous Georgian-style ‘mansion’ on the nook of Bellevue Avenue and Ridge Street,” the musician wrote in his autobiography, in response to Asbury Park Press. “I went by means of my common purchaser’s regret, however I held out, promising myself I’d fill the massive previous home with what I’d been looking for: household and a life.” Sooner or later down the road, Springsteen picked up an adjoining five-acre property, which he bought to NBA participant Randy Foye in 2016 for $1.7 million. The next yr, the “I’m On Hearth” singer bought the remaining residence for $3.2 million.