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He’s shucked the ’83 Porsche 911 Turbo, the ’55 Ford Thunderbird, the ’99 Lamborghini Diablo, and the ’91 Acura NSX—the latter, “my favorite car of all time,” he says, flashing a stunning bulwark of diamond-white teeth. Baldwin, a 54-year-old commodities broker, is standing in a spacious office where three computers are humming and a massive flat-screen TV is tuned to various Wall Street tickers. His office is on his home’s second floor, next to his wife’s office, which flanks their birch-trimmed bedroom, which hangs precariously over blue-black waves ramming a sea wall 40 feet below. “I’ve been maintaining this place for nearly 25 years,” he says. “It’s like a living thing, but it’s often wounded. That’s because he owns, lives, works, and plays at Granot Loma, a 50-room Adirondack-style mansion on the granitic shore of Lake Superior, 14 miles north of Marquette, Michigan. Now a National Historic Landmark, it was originally built by banking baron Louis Kaufman between 1919 and 1923. Kaufman, bless his fiscally inclined soul, invented branch banking. If it weren’t, we probably wouldn’t have been invited to use it as a comparison-test destination—probably wouldn’t have been invited to stay in the piggery, even. Depending on what your bank manager says, G. L. can be yours for $20 million—well, $40 million if you want the outbuildings and the estate’s full 5000 acres [ see here ]. We say yours , because no C/D editor can afford either the $52,000 annual... Source: www.caranddriver.com
