The home was completed in 1919 by John S. Pillsbury and his wife Eleanor. John was the son of Charles Pillsbury, the founder of the Pillsbury Flour Co.

While John had an uncle with the same name, John S. Pillsbury, who was governor of Minnesota at one point, John lived as heir to a fortune. He was CEO of the company for a while.

John had purchased the property from the Dunwoody family and tore down their home.

John and Eleanor commissioned the architect Harrie T. Lindeberg to create the 32,000-square-foot mansion. A New Yorker, Lindeberg built summer estates for many of America’s big-name families, such as the Morgans and the Vanderbilts.  View more of Harrie Lindeberg’s architect here.

Jim and Mary Jundt purchased the home and began restoration work that would take three years. They hired a firm that had also restored Grand Central Station and Ellis Island buildings out in New York.

Come 2006, the Jundts hosted President George W. Bush when he was in the area for a gala.

Not long after, they put the house on the market for $53.5 million. They later reduced it to $26 million, and so on…

Taxes are currently paid for by BRACKETT POINT PROPERTY LLC in PRIOR LAKE which run about 141k a year for the vacant lot.

Price: $53,000,000, $24,000,000, $7,900,00-sold 8 August 2018, $11,327,240-sold 27 August 2018, $4,600,000-sold April 2019
Size: 32,000 Sq. Ft.
Bedrooms: 7
Bathrooms: 6 Full, 7 Half
Specialty Items: 13 Acres, 1,700 Ft. of Lake Minnetonka Shoreline, Outdoor Swimming Pool, Built in 1918, Former Home of John S. Pillsbury Sr., Gourmet Kitchen, Dock, Tennis Court, Tennis Pavilion, Pool House, Conservatory.
Address: 1400 Bracketts Point Road, Orono, Minnesota 55391

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