Real Estate
Michigan’s Most Expensive Home Is $20 Million
A show-stopping Tiffany clock? Check. Five thousand feet of private sandy beach front on Lake Superior? Check. A private island? Check.
MARQUETTE, MI — For the price of $20 million, you could own Michigan’s most expensive home for sale right now, in a tucked-away corner of Marquette. It’s a 23-bedroom, 415-acre estate steeped in luxury and history. A show-stopping Tiffany clock? Check. More than 5,000 feet of private sandy beach front on Lake Superior? Check. Your own private island? Check.
The estate, known as Granot Loma, is in a league of its own. It’s surely built for the outdoor enthusiast: there’s two rivers, a private harbor with an indoor boathouse, hiking and snowmobile trails, hunting and wildlife watching opportunities and fishing. It includes a farm with orchards, gardens, fields and a large dairy barn. There’s also two additional homes and a private windmill that covers all its energy needs.
The home was built in the roaring ‘20s by financier Louis G. Kaufman and according to Property Shark, is probably the largest hand-crafted log cabin in the U.S. It features a commercial-grade chef’s kitchen that emulates the White House kitchen, they said, and it’s included in the National Register of Historic Places.
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“One of Granot Loma Lodge’s most iconic features is the 60-foot long great room and its oversized Lake Superior stone fireplace complete with a striking 18-foot mantle crafted from a ship that sunk in Lake Superior,” Property Shark reported. The home also hosted George Gershwin, one of the greatest songwriters of the early 20th Century. “Another coveted amenity is the game room where Gershwin once played, while the breakfast solarium reaches out to the shoreline.”
There’s 25 fireplaces, a card room with pool table and music area, in-home fitness center, media lounge, full bar with lake views, and a 3,000-gallon hot tub perched just above the harbor. Talk about world-class amenities.
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Take a look at the details:
- Address: 1000 County Road KE, Marquette, Michigan
- Price: $20,000,000
- Square Feet: 30000
- Bedrooms: 23
- Bathrooms: 11 Full and 1 Half Baths
- Built: 1923
- Features: Granot Loma is a world class estate located on the shores of Lake Superior. The lodge & other buildings were hand-crafted by over 400 craftsmen during the early 1920's in the tradition of the Great Adirondack Lodges to not only rival, but exceed any lodge of its era. Built by the financier Louis G. Kaufman, the Oregon Pine was brought in rail cars to its final resting spot on a peninsula, jutting out into Lake Superior with views of the lake on three sides.
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