After writing the post about the Pillsbury Home in Orono called Southways, I have received many questions about if this property ever sold.
The home is reported to have 32,000 square feet of space in the main house and another 10,000 square feet in the “secondary” structures. It sits on almost 13 acres with 1700 feet of shoreline on a peninsula on the tip of Brackets Bay on Lake Minnetonka. Currently owned by James and Mary Jundt of Scottsdale Arizona, the taxes are $210k per year! The home features 9 bedrooms, 16 bathrooms, and a 12 car garage. It has multiple indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court, riding stables, a 15,000 bottle wine cellar, tea house, smoking room, and a caretaker cottage.
This is only the 2nd time since 1918 that this home has come up for sale. The price was set at $53,500,000 (although the tax assessed value of this Lake Minnetonka home is only $17 million). It stayed on the market for 435 days and does not appear to have sold as the listing expired in October 2009 and the tax records show the Jundt as still owning it.
