Most Expensive Log Cabin In World Is in Michigan [PHOTOS]

The world's biggest log cabin is the most expensive home in Michigan 

According to Yahoo, not only is it the biggest log cabin in the world, it's the most expensive at $40,000,000!  It's a 26,000-square-foot log mansion with a farm, on almost eight square MILES of land. Construction took four years, completed in 1923, for a grand total of $5 million. That’s the equivalent of about $70 million today.

It was built by Louis G. Kaufman, who was not only a financier and bank president, but one of the original guys behind General Motors.  The estate’s title, Granot Loma, is a mix of letters from the names of Kaufman’s first three children, Louis, Graveraet and Otto, and his wife Marie’s name.  The 23-bedroom, 13-bath estate has a 60-foot-long great room and a 30-foot long fireplace (one of 26 on the property) with a mantle made of a wooden beam salvaged from a sunken ship found in Lake Superior.

The property also includes numerous other buildings, such as a guest house with four apartments, maid’s quarters, a playhouse, a root cellar, garages, and a tennis court designed by tennis champ of yore Bill Tilden.  Then there’s the farm. It includes 13 buildings set on a hillside, fields, an orchard, two homes, a barn, a pool with a pool house, a massive dairy barn, garages and sheds.

Chicago bond trader Tom Baldwin purchased Granot Loma in 1987, with the intent of restoring the lodge to its former glory and adding some touches of his own while updating the place for modern life.  Baldwin is now attempting to sell Granot Loma for $40 million.

ABOUT THE HOME:

• COST: $40,000,000
• LOCATION: Marquette MI, off of Lake Superior
• ABOUT: There are only 23 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms and it also happens to have a farm that once milked 200 cows. The property has 13 buildings that include a guest house with four apartments!