Unique Property on Rainy Lake

Brent Bocnuk
Lakehomes.com Realty
218-286-8888

$450,000

This unique property with it's excellent location for residential, commercial or light manufacturing use is available for the first time in 22 years. A 1250sq.ft. shop with 13'ceilings overhead door and abundant natural light is connected to a 820sq.ft. living/office space with loft. Both have a dazzling waterfront view of the Rainy River. Adjacent to a popular waterfront park with Public docks The Workshop has great potential. Enjoy 345 square miles of first class fishing, sailing and canoeing on magical Rainy Lake, the western entry to Voyager's National Park. Canada lies across the Rainy River and there are easy border crossing points for pedestrians, cars, boats, float planes, & snowmobiles all within 3 miles. Ranier is served by Canadian National railroad freight operations, and is home to several customs brokerages and is adjacent to Foreign Trade Zone #259, one of only eight FTZs in Minnesota. The story of exactly when "the Workshop" was built is lost in the dust & smoke of time. Probably a reasonable guess is that it was around 1910, at the height of the logging boom. One of it's earliest and liveliest incarnations was as "Lil's Place", one of Ranier's popular brothels. Later it was part of Dan McCarthy's wholesale fish business first as an ice house and later as a garage. The refrigerated boxcar that is now an outbuilding on the property was used to ship Rainy Lake fish to market in places like Chicago & St. Paul. At some point it was part of a boatyard and the concrete pad in the yard was where the winch for a marine railway was mounted. Before my family owned the place my father hauled his Jonesport lobsterboat here and there's a sketch by Gene Ritchey Monahan of it on the tracks being scraped & painted. Burgess Eberhart built his houseboat in the shop here , And of course I've had my ongoing project of refitting the "Diane", my old Danish trawler. When my father, Ted Hall, acquired the six lots from several separate owners in 1988, and made extensive renovations to the existing building and in 1989 built what is now the studio. The shop became "The Rainy Lake Printing House" where he printed several editions of his books he wrote. For the last eight years it's been home to "Ranier Woodworks" my woodworking shop.

Property	Rainy Lake - Lake Front - House
Bedrooms	1
Bathrooms	1.00
Year Built	1905
Lot Size	150x120
Acreage	0.40
Square Feet	960
Community	Ranier
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