Detroit, MI
McFeely: Late Fargo businessman Ace Brandt’s lake home on Big Detroit on market for $11 million
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — A lakefront mansion built by late Fargo developer Ace Brandt is on the market. It will be a very limited market.
Brandt’s estate on Big Detroit Lake
is listed for $10.995 million dollars.
Peter Prudden of
the Prudden Company in Minneapolis
has the listing.
“A rare opportunity now exists for one of the finest lakefront estates in all of Minnesota,” Prudden says in the listing.
The home, at 1701 Shorewood Drive in Detroit Lakes (not far from the popular Long Bridge Bar, Grill & Marina), is located on 14.6 acres with 334 feet of lakeshore. The main residence is 7,564 square feet. The property also includes a 2,670 square foot guest residence and a 5,494 square foot out-building with two private apartments.
“The luxurious living space includes the finest of handmade finishes coupled with stunning design and function making this home truly special,” the listing says, “With open entertaining areas all facing the infinity pool area with walls of modern architectural windows, providing breathtaking water views of the lake.”
The main house has eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms. There’s an outdoor pool and five fireplaces.
Property taxes in 2022 were $45,922.
Prudden told the news website Bring Me The News
the house was designed by Chicago architect Michael Abraham “to design a private sanctuary that would balance modern design, while staying true to a northern cabin experience.”
Photo courtesy of the Prudden Company
Brandt died in 2021 of brain cancer at the age of 60. He was a Fargo real estate developer and businessman who owned the Fargo Force junior hockey team and developed Scheels Arena.
A Forum story on his death
said he was president and board chairman of Brandt Holdings, a Fargo-based company that operates businesses in real estate, agriculture, and industrial equipment across the Upper Midwest.
One of Brandt’s lasting marks on the Fargo-Moorhead area is southwest Fargo’s Urban Plains development, an area south of the new Sanford Medical Center that only 15 years ago was largely open fields.
You can see all the photos of the property
by clicking here.
Photo courtesy of Prudden Company
Mike McFeely is a columnist for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. He began working for The Forum in the 1980s while he was a student studying journalism at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He’s been with The Forum full time since 1990, minus a six-year hiatus when he hosted a local radio talk-show.