America’s most notorious and best known gangster, Al Capone, is still making headlines in the Chicago newspapers more than 62 years after his death.
And it has nothing to do with illegal gambling, smuggling, bootlegging, prostitution or massacres.
Capone’s 407-acre 1920s-era “hideout” in Couderay, Wisc., which includes a 37-acre private lake located in the beautiful northwoods of “The Badger State,” is headed to the Sawyer County courthouse for a foreclosure auction set for 10:30 a.m. Oct. 8, 2009.
The minimum bid on the property — one of many that Capone used throughout the nation back in the day to “lay low” — is $2.6 million.
Here’s the official property description from Chippewa Valley Bank:
“Includes the original 1920’s main lodge of native fieldstone with massive split fieldstone fireplace, an eight-car garage renovated into a fabulous bar and restaurant, bunkhouse, year-round caretaker’s residence, guard tower along with other outbuildings and Capone’s unique ‘jail cell.’ Very private and pristine beautiful. There are many unique features to this property designed by the notorious gangster himself.”
Contents of the lake and whatever (or whoever) is possibly contained on the land — maybe even some legendary buried treasure — are also included.
For more information on Capone’s Wisconsin retreat click here and here.
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