Own Al Capone's lair (Only $450k/£306k!)

[Story]

For sale: Six-room two-flat home in Chicago's Park Manor neighbourhood; ornate tile work; impressive brick exterior; an underground cellar big enough hide some cash or ditch a tommy gun.

The home on South Prairie Avenue, once owned by mobster Al Capone and his family, has hit the market for a listing price of $450,000 (£306,000). It's a hefty sum considering similar two-flats in the working-class south side neighbourhood are selling for $180,000 to $230,000. But no other home in Chicago can match the history of the modest brick house that has had just two owners since Capone's mother died in 1952.

"I'm looking for people who would be interested in the historical value of this home," said Patrice Brazil, the Coldwell Banker agent who's listing it. "It's an excellent home, and it's in great shape."

(Complete article at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/02/al-capone-home-for-sale-chicago )

See also
http://www.zillow.com/blog/al-capones-chicago-home-for-sale/2009/04/17/

and
http://www.coldwellbankeronline.com/Property/PropertyDetails.aspx?PropertyID=909189

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Is it just one level of the building or the who thing? if is only one level I would term it a "Maisonette"

PS

If its the whole building it seems Okie-Dokie for the price

 

[Fletch]

Misread header as: Own Al Capone's hair.

No thanks.

 

[filfoster]

Is it just one level of the building or the who thing? if is only one level I would term it a "Maisonette"

PS

If its the whole building it seems Okie-Dokie for the price

If it's got a basement, Geraldo will want to see it. You could recoup some of the purchase price for the TV rights.

 

[filfoster]

Al Capone's hair

Misread header as: Own Al Capone's hair.

No thanks.

You just know that somewhere, someone does own some.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

... the modest brick house that has had just two owners since Capone's mother died in 1952.

Though Capone bought it, the house was a gift for his mother. Capone never really lived in it.


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[Tomasso]

Though Capone bought it, the house was a gift for his mother. Capone never really lived in it.


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Capone's mother lived in one of the apartments while his wife and son lived in the other. It was his Official Chicago residence of record. How much time he actually spent there is another story.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

It was his Official Chicago residence of record.

The ideal home for a hardworking furniture dealer.

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[Tomasso]

The ideal home for a hardworking furniture dealer.

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The furniture biz must have been awfully lucrative......



Florida home:

Cuba home:

....and competitive too, if it required an .........

Armored Cadillac:

 

[Story]

WAUSAU, Wis. — The buyer of a scenic property in northern Wisconsin will get more than just its bar and restaurant: They'll have a former hideout of Chicago mobster Al Capone.

The 407-acre wooded site, complete with guard towers and a stone house with 18-inch-thick walls, will soon go on the auction block at a starting bid of $2.6 million.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iZPzF12CLxPHl0V3AzOknGzgqntQD9AQFU5G0

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For those who are less ostentatious, you can get a 1/6th scale Al Capone made - complete with three piece pinstripe suit.
http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id168.htm

 

[Story]

Al Capone's hideout sells for $2.6 million today.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/08/wisconsin.capone.hideout.sold/
(CNN) -- The reputed hideout of infamous mobster Al Capone sold to Chippewa Valley Bank of Wisconsin for $2.6 million, according to CNN affiliate KBJR affiliate in Duluth, Minnesota.
Locals say mobster Al Capone used his family's Wisconsin property as a hideout.

The bank was the only bidder at the auction Thursday at the Sawyer County Courthouse in Wisconsin. The previous owners, Guy and Jean Houston, purchased it for $4.25 million in 1959, KBJR said.

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-338645

Chicago gangster, Al Capone, used this place in Couderay, Wisconsin as a hideout. The construction of the estate started in 1925. It is about 140 miles northeast of Minneapolis. The main lodge is where Capone lived, and it has walls that are eighteen inches thick. Inside has hand-cut stone fireplace and custom-made spiral staircases were created in Chicago. It also has a stone gun tower (pictured), where machine gun-armed guards watched out for the authorities. There is also a caretaker’s cottage and a bunkhouse. A barn on the estate is supposed to have housed chickens, so the gangster could have fresh eggs. There is even a jail house on the grounds (pictured), a very small single cell surrounded by a brick wall. It was later turned into a restaurant and tourist attraction. Mike Duchek (photographer) told me that he took a tour of the hideout while working in Rhinelander.

 

[texasgirl]

Now the Bonnie and Clyde's Hideout in Joplin, MO is up for sale. It's on ebay starting at 250K. Someone might get a good deal I know the owner got it put on the historic registry, and he was trying to get a B&B permit in August, guess it didn't work out.

 

[Story]

Now the Bonnie and Clyde's Hideout in Joplin, MO is up for sale. It's on ebay starting at 250K. Someone might get a good deal I know the owner got it put on the historic registry, and he was trying to get a B&B permit in August, guess it didn't work out.

Not much to look at, is it? [huh]
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pZO0lOEj1...CRE/9UzGRX8NzY8/s320/806+bonnie+clyde+apt.jpg

http://aftonstationblog-laurel.blogspot.com/2009/08/melancholia.html

http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/local_story_285234118.html

 

[Tomasso]

Not much to look at, is it? [huh]

Well, B&C were small timers compared to Big Al.

 

[Story]

The Daley machine acknowledges Capone's existence. Film at 11.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/2050423,CST-NWS-capone16.article

 

[up196]

Sigh . . . I'll have to be content with just having his revolver.

 

[Story]

Al Capone is America's most legendary gangster, but his criminal reign in Chicago was surprisingly brief—a mere five years, from 1926 to 1931. In his new book, "Get Capone," former Wall Street Journal staff writer Jonathan Eig tells the story of Capone's rise and fall based on thousands of newly discovered secret government documents. In this excerpt, a brutal murder cements Capone's reputation as the city's most cutthroat criminal, and a key business decision by the man called Scarface sets the stage for his dramatic downfall.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...166330817151588.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_7

 

[tonyb]

Al Capone is America's most legendary gangster, but his criminal reign in Chicago was surprisingly brief—a mere five years, from 1926 to 1931. In his new book, "Get Capone," former Wall Street Journal staff writer Jonathan Eig tells the story of Capone's rise and fall based on thousands of newly discovered secret government documents. In this excerpt, a brutal murder cements Capone's reputation as the city's most cutthroat criminal, and a key business decision by the man called Scarface sets the stage for his dramatic downfall.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...166330817151588.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_7

Thanks for posting the link to that story, Story.

The popular fascination with the notorious criminals of the early "Golden Era" isn't wasted on me. As a 10-year-old, I knew more about the St. Valentine's Day Massacre than could possibly be healthy for such an impressionable young mind.

But it's good to be reminded of just how romanticized our views of these characters tend to be. Sure, many of these figures -- Capone, Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, etc., etc. -- committed some outrageously bold acts and said some genuinely humorous things. They sold a lot of newspapers (and they continue to sell books and tickets to the Hollywood fantasy factory's versions of their life stories). But they also did some truly vile, despicable things. And their careers were short. How old was Dillinger when he was shot dead? Early 30s, wasn't it? And Bonnie & Clyde? Capone went to Alcatraz and died from the effects of syphilis, right? Boy, talk about glamorous!

 

[Chas]

Outrageous pretty much describes alot of their behaviour - especially the gratuitious killing. It's very "American" to romantasize the criminal; it goes back to Jesse James and even before that. Other cultures do it, too, I suppose; not just American culture.

Of course, the hyper-religious control freaks that populated the temperance movements and brought about the Volstead Act are the most responsible for creating guys like Al Capone (and Dutch Schultz, Legs Diamond, Charlie Luciano...).

 

[Story]

Journalist JONATHAN EIG [‘EYE’G] tells us almost everything we know about legendary Chicago gangster Al Capone is wrong. Eliot Ness wasn’t the man on who brought down Capone; and newly discovered FBI records add more credence to Capone’s denial of responsibility of the Valentine’s Day Massacre. Through handwritten letters, wiretap transcripts and recently discovered government documents, Eig reconstructs this infamous American lore in “Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster.”

http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2010/06/29/get-capone/