Longtime political strategist David Axelrod and his wife, Susan, on Sept. 10 sold their four-bedroom home and country estate in Buchanan, Michigan, for $2.15 million.
A former Chicago Tribune reporter, Axelrod, 70, helped advise Barack Obama’s successful presidential run in 2008 and worked as a senior adviser in the Obama White House from 2009 until 2011. He later led the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, a position he stepped down from last year, although he remains with the institute as a senior fellow.
In Buchanan, which is a small vacation community in southwest Michigan, the Axelrods bought the 52-acre property in 1998. They converted the main structure on the property, a barn dating to 1857, into a 4,200-square-foot 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.
“After 27 years, we left that magical place with great sadness, and hope the new owners, (and) their friends and family, love and appreciate it as much as we have,” David Axelrod told Elite Street.
The Axelrods listed the estate in April for $2.3 million, as Elite Street first reported at the time. They found a buyer in August. Public records show that the buyer is a Michigan limited liability company whose owners, a Chicago couple, have worked in wealth management and for a Major League Baseball team.
The Axelrods also have a home in the South Side Hyde Park neighborhood.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.