While ‘Mansion Impossible’ producers persist in pitching the story of the infamous Grant mansion to online platforms and TV networks, vandals continue to trespass on the property to break windows and put graffiti on the walls.
With its circular design and steel and stone build, the infamous Grant mansion looks strangely out of place on the shore of Lake Temiskaming in Haileybury, Ont.
The 65,000-square-foot house has been abandoned for almost 20 years, and it’s become something of a local landmark over time.
“It’s one of the few cool things to see around here,” said Cobalt resident John Goerge Postma, who has brought his out-of-town visitor to the edge of the property to take in the view.
“It looks like the house of a James Bond villain.”
While Postma is here to look …