‘Traditional, yet modern’ horse farm on the market

Located at 3550 Delano Rd., Walkabout Farm is listed for $1.95 million. Photo by C.J. Carnacchio.
Located at 3550 Delano Rd., Walkabout Farm is listed for $1.95 million. Photo by C.J. Carnacchio.

If you have $1.95 million just burning a hole in your pocket, you could be the proud owner of a farm in Oxford Township’s scenic horse country.

That’s the asking price for Walkabout Farm, located at 3550 Delano Rd. between Oakwood and Davison Lake roads.

Owned by Gary Wasserman, the 77-acre farm contains a 3,500-square-foot ranch house (built in 2007) with four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms, plus an 1,100-square-foot, climate-controlled carriage house that could be used as a guest house.

Wasserman said the whole farm has an “unusual ambience” in that “it’s traditional, yet modern” and “very rustic, but still elegant.”

His parents, the late Edith and Alvin Wasserman, purchased the farm in the early 1980s. He’s owned it since 2006.

“My parents always kept it like a park and I continued to do that,” Wasserman said. “The entire 77 acres is maintained that way.”

In addition to the houses, Walkabout Farm contains a spacious horse barn with eight stalls as well as a wash rack and feed areas, a large maintenance barn and a smaller storage barn.

Wasserman decided to list the farm because he’s “very engaged in Detroit,” which is where he owns and operates an art gallery, Wasserman Projects in Eastern Market.

“I’m just getting tired of driving back and forth,” he explained.

“I don’t leave this (farm) easily,” Wasserman added.

He likened the prospect of selling Walkabout Farm to a “surgical extraction.”

“I actually love this place,” Wasserman said. “I’m just trying to consolidate my life a bit.”

To view Walkabout Farm, call Signature Sotheby’s International Realty at 1-800-238-4646.

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