SOLD - 741 Main St, LaPointe WI - Architect-Designed Waterfront Home   With unique touches ranging from antique driveway pavers (rescued from the 1980s Butler Square renovation in Minneapolis) to the "crow's nest" tower with a panoramic view of LaPointe harbor, to the artist's studio connected to the main home across a covered breezeway, 741 Main Street is one of downtown LaPointe's most stylish and elegant homes. We're proud to report that this property has now been sold by Madeline Island Realty. [741 Main Street, LaPointe WI 54850 - SOLD by Madeline Island Realty]   This was our third upper-bracket sale on Madeline Island in just over four months, priced at $739,000 and listed by Madeline Island Realty.  The sale of 741 Main Street on Madeline Island (listed for sale by Madeline Is... 01/31/2014

  A Closer Look at Madeline Island's Main Street Waterfront Neighborhood     A few years ago, a couple walked into our Madeline Island Realty office at 809 Main Street, in downtown LaPointe, Wisconsin.  They had just arrived on Madeline Island a few minutes earlier and they'd visited the Island many times in the past. The male of the species pointed out our side window, facing south, and inqured, "got anything for sale down the street here on the waterfront side?"  I showed them our brochure with out the one available single-family waterfront home on Main Street.  He asked me how often these Main Street cottages and homes hit the market, and I replied that it has been rare to see one with a For Sale sign in the yard during the past ten years. Like all of our most choice neighborhoods on... 02/16/2013

741 Main Street in LaPointe is a Part of Madeline Island History Madeline Island Realty's most recent residential listing at 741 Main Street, La Pointe, Wisconsin, has quite a historic past.  The first titled owner of the property at 741 Main Street was J. Austrian, who acquired the property in 1854. The site of the Foster residence was formerly owned by Frank J. Albright in the early to mid-1900s and was the site of the Albright Boat Works.  Albright built a thriving business there, a combination hardware store, machine shop and plumbing supply depot which doubled as a fishing station.  According to the book On the Rock: The History of Madeline Island Told Through its Families, Albright also supplied water to nearby cottages along the Main Street shoreline. In the late 1950s, the prope... 01/26/2013