Olympic luger Joe Barile lists stunning Lake Placid mansion for $28.5 MILLION: Expansive mountain property includes a bowling alley, pond and a waterfall

Famous Olympic luger Joe Barile has listed his Lake Placid mansion for $28.5 million.

Barile, 64, and his wife Pat Barile have put their 70-acre property in the mountains on the market. 

The finished Lake Placid home features hand-cut stone walls, elaborate ironwork, flying buttresses, and bronze windows and doors—all the result of over two decades of construction.

The mansion will establish a record for the most expensive home ever sold in the Lake Placid region if it sells for close to its asking price. The current record was set in 2005 when an adjacent ranch sold for $13 million.

The property, which is beneath the Southern Adirondack High Peaks, features a 5-acre private pond with a waterfall and a small brook. It also borders the west branch of the Ausable River.

Basile, who is also the owner of The White Face Lodge and its parent company, the Lake Placid Group, told the Wall Street Journal he paid $5 million for the property in 2007 from the late car-carburetor manufacturer and inventor George Holley's estate.

Famous Olympic luger Joe Barile, 64, has listed his Lake Placid mansion for $28.5 million

The finished Lake Placid home features hand-cut stone walls, elaborate ironwork, flying buttresses, and bronze windows and doors—all the result of over two decades of construction

The mansion will establish a record for the most expensive home ever sold in the Lake Placid region if it sells for close to its asking price

The property, which is beneath the Southern Adirondack High Peaks, features a 5-acre private pond with a waterfall and a small brook

Joe told the Wall Street Journal he paid $5 million for the property in 2007 from the late car-carburetor manufacturer and inventor George Holley's estate

Covering approximately 15,000 square feet, the main home has five bedrooms, a gym, a wine cellar, ten native-stone fireplaces, and a bowling alley.

The Bariles demolished the existing house and spent seven years on the initial construction, moving into the new house in 2015.

Covering approximately 15,000 square feet, the main home has five bedrooms, a gym, a wine cellar, ten native-stone fireplaces, and a bowling alley. It also comes with a two-family farmhouse and several outbuildings.

The property's electricity comes from a hydropower plant, which uses a dam on the river to provide most of the estate's electricity. Holley knew Thomas Edison personally, whose company designed the dam after he passed.

The Holleys owned an oil picture of Edison that is hanging in the house, and Joe said he intends to pass it down to the buyer. 

Barile began working on his Lake Placid house in 2008. Instead of always working with an architect or following a predetermined plan, he added more flourishes as the building project moved along.

The lead roof was specifically made by artisans from the United Kingdom, who lived on the property for almost four years while completing the work.

Barile specifically hired Polish carpenters to complete the oak details and imitate the flying buttresses that Barile had observed in European châteaux and churches.

The Olympian said on-site stone quarries provided all of the stone for the property as cutting certain stones took nearly a whole day.

'When you're trying to create art, you can't be rushed,' he told WSJ.

Barile said his wife became frustrated with the project, and wanted the couple and their two children to move into the home before they went off to college. 

'She mentioned many times, 'Let's be done with this. Let's get rid of the workers and start enjoying this,' Barile said.

The Olympian said on-site stone quarries provided all of the stone for the property as cutting certain stones took nearly a whole day (Pictured: Joe Barile in the 1988 Winter Oly

The property's electricity comes from a hydropower plant, which uses a dam on the river to provide most of the estate's electricity

The mansion also borders the west branch of the Ausable River

Barile specifically hired Polish carpenters to complete the oak details and imitate the flying buttresses that Barile had observed in European châteaux and churches

The façade of the house is still being worked on, Barile insisting on adding minor details. 

Now that their two daughters have moved out, the house is too big for Joe and Pat. But Joe said he wouldn't mind if the house never sold.

'Walking the grounds, you feel as though you're in your own private national park,' he said.