Madonna's Bay City home still attracts visitors

Without any attempt to promote their Bay City home's ties to Madonna, Michelle and Larry Campau say they've had countless tourists - some from as far as Japan - knock on their door over the years.
'We get lots of visitors,' Michelle Campau said. 'When we first bought it, people wanted to come in and look around with video cameras and take pictures, and they'll drive around the block a couple of times.'
The home at 1204 Smith St. on Bay City's West Side is where Madonna's grandparents, Elsie and Willard Fortin, raised eight children, including Madonna's late mother, who died from breast cancer at age 30.
It's also the same Banks-area home where Madonna spent her childhood summers and holidays - catching enough of a whiff of a nearby petroleum plant - now closed - to once reference Bay City on national television as a 'smelly little town in Northern Michigan.'

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Comments

[Jon]

Wow to the below comment.

You really need some boundries.

[Aaron Smith]

I have actually been to that house. I have pictures of it as well as a rose that we placed on Madonna's Mother's grave.

We knocked on the door of the house and Madonna's nephew (striking resemblence) opened the door. Madonna's Grandma was in the kitchen cooking. My friend did all of the talking. I froze. I was freaking out. We almost got our asses kicked. We just wanted a picture with Grandma...but the price the nephew negotiated was too much. This was 2 years ago. Maybe I will post the pic on here...just don't want to offend Madge. I love her!!!