The luxurious 20-acre Novi estate popularly known as former Wisne mansion is up for sale. Larry Wisne is the former CEO of Progressive Tool & Industries Co. The estate is one of Metro Detroit’s most fabulous estates which is as elaborate as a resort! The interior of the home is done by Lucy Earl, a Birmingham interior designer who has worked for the Fords, Ilitches and Penskes who ‘considers it to be one of her most prestigious projects.’ The 21,363 square-foot residence is hidden behind surveillance cameras and a remote-controlled gate at the end of the already gated Turnberry Boulevard of million-dollar homes across Eight Mile from the Meadowbrook Golf Club.



The property includes six bedroom suites with their own baths and sitting rooms, rich woods, shining Italian plaster, marble and gold leaf details, a movie theater, a media room with seven built-in big-screen TVs and a herringbone leather floor, a bowling alley, a steam room, a wine vault and wine tasting room, cigar and meditation rooms, a pool with a 60 foot-long water slide and a par-three golf hole are tucked into more than $5 million worth of landscaped waterfalls, seven ponds with separate trout and bass environments, garage space for 10 vehicles and an underground water works.



The garden of the estate took four years to complete with 70,000 man-hours, hundreds of trees and 3,000 tons of limestone rocks. Jeffrey Higgins, the landscape architect of the magnificent estate reckons it to be ‘the largest private home garden built in the Midwest in 100 years.’ The listing is at Realtor Chris Knight for $11.25 million!!!