Wisconsin

Wisconsin Jeweler Helps Man Unload Wife's QVC Haul

Filed under: Jewelry

A unique combination of estate and rummage sale is taking place in Wisconsin this weekend. A man who recently lost his wife found that unbeknown to him she had bought hundreds of pieces of jewelry from QVC's shopping channel. Facing debts after her death the man has partnered with Paul's Jewelry in West Allis, Wis. to sell the jewelry. The sale takes place through Saturday afternoon. Pieces range from fine to fashion, many set with semiprecious stones. The store's website promises that all proceeds go directly to offset the family's debt and promises serious deals. Pieces that sold for $50 to $300 will be available at the store for $5 to $25. Often these types of sales are handled privately but the added publicity may help call attention both to the sale and the perils of over-enthusiastic home shopping.

Friday June 18th, 10a-5p,
Saturday June 19th, 10a-3p
Paul's Jewelers
Hwy 100 and National Ave
West Allis, WI 53227
414-321-5764

[via National Jeweler]

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Treetops, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

Frank Lloyd Wright protege Wesley Peters designed this incredible home composed of overlapping concentric circles. The private 80-acre estate offers total privacy with nature trails, a stream and a pasture. It includes a high tech roof and a five-car Wright-style garage. It is located in Vermont, Wisconsin which is about a half hour away from Madison. The home has been through a remodel and restyle but maintains the vision of the original architect. It is listed at $2 million.

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Football Team Banks Future On Real Estate Investment

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Filed under: Sports

The publicly-owned Green Bay Packers football team can't rely on a deep-pocketed owner for help and so one of the ways that the team is looking out for its future is by investing in real estate. A recent article from WBAY says that the team has picked about around 20 acres to the west and south of their stadium, Lambeau Field. The team is hoping that the investment will bring revenue to the team in the years to come. Businesses like K-mart and Big Lots sit on land the Packers own and the Packers are planning more development. A mix of hotels, restaurants and retail spaces are being created for the surrounding Ashwaubenon area. The village has a population of around 17,000 but Lambeau Field and the practice fields draw many tourists each year.

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Maltese Falcon Designer's 1920s-Style Superyacht Inspired by JFK

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Filed under: Yachts & Sailing

Ken Freivokh, designer of the famed Maltese Falcon, the world's largest, most high-tech, beautiful and costliest sailing yacht, has gone classic for his latest project, the 1920's-inspired superyacht Sycara IV (above). The 151-ft. luxury yacht, built by the Burger Boat Company in Wisconsin, is designed to cruise the Great Lakes in high style and is partly inspired by John F. Kennedy's yacht the Honey Fitz. The aluminum-bodied craft resembles a classic wooden motor yacht with a schooner bow and fantail hull. The Art Deco-inspired interior woodwork is a masterpiece of handcrafted mahogany and madrone burl, with ebony, sycamore and padouk accents highlighted with stainless steel details in scores of inlays and moldings. Lalique bathroom fixtures are the finishing Deco touch. Of course she's also equipped with every bit of state-of-the-art tech you'd expect in a modern superyacht.

[via JamesList]

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Al Capone's Wisconsin Hideout Up For Auction

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Filed under: Auctions

Al Capone's "hideout retreat" in Wisconsin, which has most recently been a restaurant and bar, will be put up for sale with a minimum bid of $2.5 million. The retreat located in the Northwoods of Wisconsin near Couderay spans 407 acres and has its own private lake.

The fieldstone lodge was owned Capone in the 1920s and 1930s during Prohibition and the property is said to have been used as a place where liquor was flown in on planes that landed on the lake. The bootlegged booze was then trucked to Chicago. Chippewa Valley Bank acquired the property after foreclosing on the owner last year. On October 8th the bank will auction off the property which also includes a bunkhouse, caretaker's residences, guard tower and other outbuildings.

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Marshall's Point, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

Today's home is a huge estate on 21 acres in the Marshall's Point community of Sister's Bay, Wisconsin. The modern home is located on 700 feet of water frontage and has a bit of a boat inspired interior. It's not specifically nautical in any way but there is a certain sense of curvature and flow that reminds me of handcrafted wooden boats. The large home has a Cape Cod style and summery appeal. The main level has large rooms including an eat-in kitchen, living room, music room and more. There are both north and south wings with one area offering guest space and the other offering a master suite with the octagonal library. An exercise room is tucked into the third floor cupola. It is being sold furnished for $16.9 million.

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Canoe Bay Offers Discount Packages

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

A luxury getaway in Wisconsin? Oh yes, Canoe Bay, the Midwest's only Relais & Châteaux resort, offers a tranquil winter retreat on 280 wooded acres. The adults-only resort has 23 accommodations including cottages and rooms at The Lodge and at The Inn: single-story cedar buildings set close to the lake's shore and surrounded by peaceful woods.

The resort is offering what they call a Personal Bailout package which includes discounted lodging, a guaranteed room upgrade and a complimentary dinner. For $830 per couple for a two-night stay, the package includes deluxe cottage accommodations , a savings of up to 40% based on type of cottage selected, guaranteed lodging upgrade and dinner for two in Canoe Bay's glass-enclosed restaurant overlooking Lake Wahdoon. Upgrades to a package with massages and other amenities are also available. Winter activities include hiking, snowshoeing and a horse-drawn sleigh ride through the snow.

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Brett Favre's Wisconsin Home, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping, Sports

Here we are again with another sports celebrity selling a home in the town they used to play for. You might think that former Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre would have one of the most lavish homes in the Green Bay area. You would be wrong. The Real Estalker Mama led me to the listing for Favre's home in Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin which reveals a simple ranch style home in a quiet neighborhood.

One of the Real Estalker's able commenters reports that Favre's main manse is in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and this is just the home he stayed in during the football season. He and his wife, Deanna bought the four-bedroom home in 2005 for $416,000 so it was likely just a temporary home in a town that he was planning not to stay in after he retired from football. This likely explains the decor which seems to have been shipped straight from the local furniture store. It is listed at just $475,000.

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Hartland, Wisconsin, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

If you want a lot of space for your dollar the Midwest is often the best place to be. Check out today's home in Hartland, Wisconsin. This mansion has 18,000 square feet of space including a home theater, seven bedrooms and heated floors that include marble, bamboo and slate. The home is wired for the latest in state-of-the art technology and also has a 17th Century wood panel fireplace from England that flows into the gourmet kitchen with granite counters. Outside there is a sports court, a nine-car garagae, indoor and outdoor pools and fountains. It is listed at $6.75 million.

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Rehorst Vodka and Gin

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Filed under: Spirits

Just a couple of weeks ago I mentioned a new vodka coming out of Wisconsin. It turns out that Wisconsin is quite the hotbed of distilling lately, forget beer, it's all about the vodka now. The Great Lakes Distillery is a small-batch distillery located in Milwaukee Wisconsin. They hand-craft distilled spirits in limited quantities and currently make Rehorst Premium Milwaukee Vodka and Rehorst Premium Milwaukee Gin. The Rehorst vodka, is made from Wisconsin red wheat, along with a special yeast, and filtered Lake Michigan water. The Rehorst gin is made with traditional gin botanicals plus two never found in gin before, sweet basil and Wisconsin ginseng. Both spirits sell for $30.

[via Wine Enthusiast]

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45th Parallel Vodka

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Filed under: Spirits

Another small distillery has sprouted up in the heartland. 45th Parallel Spirits, in New Richmond, Wisconsin takes its name from the 45th parallel which slices through Wisconsin and happens to fall on the farm where distiller Paul Werni buys the grain for his new vodka. Werni, who was previously had a landscape construction business in Minneapolis, distills his vodka from scratch. Their website has a page that breaks down the production process which includes three slow distillations. Werni, his father Paul Sr. and his college roommate Scott Davis are partners in this boutique project. So far the new vodka is only available in Wisconsin, debuting in the Madison and Milwaukee markets in March.

[via Wausau Daily Herald]

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Chateau du Lac, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

$29 million may not turn heads in parts of California or New York but it's news in Wisconsin. Chateau du Lac in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin is the biggest and the most expensive home for sale in Wisconsin history. The home is more than 35,000 square feet and sits on a limestone bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. The 100-acre estate also includes a guest house, a separate studio house, and a separate beach house with steps that lead to a sun pier on the shores of Lake Michigan.

The main house opens with a formal two-story foyer with dual staircases. The main floor alone has a formal great room, bayside parlors,a 14-seat Art Deco cinema, custom kitchen, formal dining room, morning room, pub room, garden room, a two-story library and an indoor pool and whirlpool. On the second floor, the master suite is bigger than many homes at 5,000 square feet and consists of seven rooms. A gallery connects the master suite with the northern wing which includes a guest parlor, a galley kitchen, and three additional private bedroom suites with full baths. The home is being sold with all of the furnishings including antiques and paintings for your $29 million. Too bad there aren't bigger pictures on this one.

[via TMJ4]

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Freedom Ridge, Estate of the Day

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Today's home was built by John Howe, an architect who was part of the Taliesin Fellowship of Frank Lloyd Wright and an apprentice to Mr. Wright. This home is over 10,000-square-feet with three separate bedroom suites plus a caretaker's apartment. It is located high in the Baraboo Range of Wisconsin, offering vistas of surrounding valleys and bluffs. The showpiece of this house is the garden room which includes a 20 ft. x 40 ft indoor swimming pool, a six person hot tub, fish pond with waterfall, large stone fireplace, and serving kitchen. The estate sits on 26 acres near a nature preserve and there are an additional 142 acres with a guest house, barn and outbuildings available. This home is listed at $3.5 million.

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The Uihlein Mansion, Estate of the Day

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Today's estate comes to us with a great tip from a reader. This home in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin. The home is the Uihlein mansion, a limestone Italian Renaissance home that dates back to the early 1900s and the beer barons behind Schlitz Brewing. The nine-bedroom home is currently owned by entrepreneur and philanthropist Kailas Rao and his wife, Becky. The couple have restored the home. The home is listed in the state and national registers of historic places.

The home is a real Gilded Age beauty. Each room is meant to resemble an international landmark, the drawing room for example is patterned after Versailles with gold leaf moldings and silk damask draperies. There is an elaborate living room, gourmet kitchen and a truly cinematic home theater. The home is listed at $11.9 million. After the jump, the house that beer built.

Related: Check out another beer palace: The Pabst Mansion.

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Grand Cambrian Resort

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Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

I am impressed by how many resorts are being developed in Wisconsin. The latest is the Grand Cambrian Resort in Wisconsin Dells. The $160 million resort will sit on the Wisconsin River shoreline and include condo home sites, townhomes and condo-hotel units. Each condo-hotel unit's interior will have Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini's Gioconda kitchen made by luxury Italian cabinet manufacturer Snaidero. The resort includes a three-story, 40 foot long waterfall embedded with the Grand Cambrian Resort logo. The home will have five stories of "hotel" style condominiums. The resort's Penthouse level will have four-bedroom units with lofted entertainment suites that open to a 120 square-foot viewing deck. The resort will also include 85,000 square feet of indoor entertainment space with a large arcade, indoor/outdoor waterparks, spa, river access, non-motorized river sports, four restaurants and eateries, three areas to lounge, unique retail, 35,000 square feet of banquet and conference space, sweet shops and much more. Pre-construction pricing begins at $380,000.

More Wisconsin luxury:
Chula Vista
Sundara Inn and Spa
Lake Lawn Resort
Kohler Spa Suites

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