Overpriced - after all, I didn't see any decoys in the pictures.
Wonder what a one-week rental would go for?
Bob, that would depend on which of the twenty-some bedrooms you want to use!
Mohamed Ali attempted to purchase the property in 1972? to convert it into a boxing camp. The Kaufman Estate trust attempted to sell the property to the State of Michigan in the mid-1980s. Tom Baldwin and his family purchased Granot Loma in the late 1980's for $13,000,000. He did a complete renovation on the building, replacing the kitchen completely, adding a sun room off the breakfast nook, and a lakeside jacuzzi (waterfall photo). The roof is entirely covered in slate shingles. The actual log exterior is clad over a steel framework that is anchored in a six foot concrete footer on the granite slab it rests on. One background article I read included an estimate that pegged the construction cost in current dollars at $60,000,000...
Karen and I attended a fundraiser dinner and auction on site for a local non-profit, following Tom Baldwin's purchase. Much of the Kaufman era memorabilia was sold. The remainder was gifted to the Marquette County Historical Museum. Louis Kaufman was a New York banker; one of the principals involved in planning and financing construction of the Empire State building. He was denied membership in the Huron Mountain Club( located west of Big Bay) by Henry Ford et al. Local legend states that he built Granot Loma to eclipse the grand camps in the Adirondacks, as well as those that existed in that era in the Huron Mountain Club holdings.
It has its own wind-powered generator. Excess power generated is purchased by the Hiawatha Electric Co-operative, required under State statute; Tom Baldwin's revenge on them for his assessment for construction of the enhanced transmission line that skirts the property on the western edge and supplies power to the Eagle Mine.
