Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
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Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, listed his 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.3 million. (Ronald Zarantenello)
Longtime political strategist David Axelrod, who helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, and his wife, Susan, on April 10 placed their 4,200-square-foot house and 52-acre country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, on the market for $2.3 million.
A former Chicago Tribune reporter, Axelrod, 70, also worked as a senior advisor in the Obama White House from 2009 until 2011. Early last year, he stepped down as the director of the U. of C.’s Institute of Politics, although he remains there as a senior fellow.
In Buchanan, which is a small community in southwest Michigan, the Axelrods bought the property in 1998. They converted the main structure on the property, a barn dating to 1857, into a house with four bedrooms, 4-1/2 bathrooms and three-season porches with fireplaces on each level.
The property also has a four-bedroom guesthouse with two bathrooms, a kitchen, a great room, a screened porch and a full basement. Other features on the estate include a detached three-car garage, a fitness studio, an infinity pool, a pool house, woods, rolling terrain and a pond.
“It’s an incredible amount of space for a family compound. Spaces like this come up rarely because most of the time, investors carve them up,” listing agent Ronald Zarantenello of @properties Christie’s International Real Estate told Elite Street. “The main house is a converted 1857 barn, and (the Axelrods) did an incredible job when they transformed it. It has high ceilings, and when you’re in these spaces, it really reinforces the fact that you’re In an original barn and not one of these ‘barn-dominiums’ that so many are building (nowadays).”
Zarantenello added that the estate’s guesthouse offers separate living spaces.
“The way the guesthouse was decorated offers a country lodge feel,” he said. “And the pool with the pool house is between the main house and the guesthouse, and the pool’s infinity edge feels like it flows right into the pond.”
The Axelrods also have a home in the South Side Hyde Park neighborhood.
