In addition to his Wyoming ranches, for the last twenty-five years of his life Bugas's main home was his sprawling country estate in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, which he named Woodland.
Woodland was designed by noted architect Hugh T. Keyes, who also designed Bugas's Wyoming lodge, as well as the main homes of Max Fisher, Ford II's brother Benson Ford, Ford President Semon Knudsen, and Ford Chairman and CEO Philip Caldwell.
Woodland became the unofficial site for many discreet Ford meetings (as well as discreet poker games), including with Henry Ford, McNamara, Lee Iacocca, Carroll Shelby, and Hoover.
It was also the site of large Republican fund-raising parties in 1976 with President Gerald Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in attendance and in 1980 with presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.
Woodland is not unlike the fortified "Castle" compound built by Henry Ford for Bugas's predecessor and nemesis Bennett, where Bugas and his family spent much time.
Like Henry's and Edsel's houses, Woodland also had a Ford-built, detached industrial power house serving the main house.
Bugas also owned riding stables nearby. (
Upon Bugas's death, Woodland was purchased by Max Fisher's close friend and fellow Forbes 400 member Alfred Taubman, and the house was later featured in a Vogue magazine spread.)

Bugas was a significant patron of the University of Wyoming, the Whitney Western Art Museum, and Cranbrook Kingswood, as well as a major Republican Party supporter.
He was the recipient of many awards, ranging from Automotive Executive of the Year to the Anti-Defamation League's Human Relations Award ("for a life-time of service in the field of human rights").

Bugas was a practicing Catholic, and was among the "weighty, prominent list" of financial advisors to the church (and had periodic meetings with Pope John XXIII at Vatican City).
He was director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, making many public appearances in support of the conference.

He was married to Margaret Stowe McCarty (a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe), with whom he had three daughters and a son, until her death in 1972.
In 1975 he married Joan Murphy, a former Ford Agency model twenty-five years his junior (who survived him).

Bugas died in 1982, at the age of 74, at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital a week after undergoing heart bypass surgery.
In addition to his Wyoming ranches, for the last twenty-five years of his life Bugas's main home was his sprawling country estate in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, which he named Woodland. Woodland was designed by noted architect Hugh T. Keyes, who also designed Bugas's Wyoming lodge, as well as the main homes of Max Fisher, Ford II's brother Benson Ford, Ford President Semon Knudsen, and Ford Chairman and CEO Philip Caldwell. Woodland became the unofficial site for many discreet Ford meetings (as well as discreet poker games), including with Henry Ford, McNamara, Lee Iacocca, Carroll Shelby, and Hoover. It was also the site of large Republican fund-raising parties in 1976 with President Gerald Ford and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in attendance and in 1980 with presidential candidate Ronald Reagan. Woodland is not unlike the fortified "Castle" compound built by Henry Ford for Bugas's predecessor and nemesis Bennett, where Bugas and his family spent much time. Like Henry's and Edsel's houses, Woodland also had a Ford-built, detached industrial power house serving the main house. Bugas also owned riding stables nearby. (Upon Bugas's death, Woodland was purchased by Max Fisher's close friend and fellow Forbes 400 member Alfred Taubman, and the house was later featured in a Vogue magazine spread.)
Bugas was a significant patron of the University of Wyoming, the Whitney Western Art Museum, and Cranbrook Kingswood, as well as a major Republican Party supporter. He was the recipient of many awards, ranging from Automotive Executive of the Year to the Anti-Defamation League's Human Relations Award ("for a life-time of service in the field of human rights").
Bugas was a practicing Catholic, and was among the "weighty, prominent list" of financial advisors to the church (and had periodic meetings with Pope John XXIII at Vatican City). He was director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, making many public appearances in support of the conference.
He was married to Margaret Stowe McCarty (a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe), with whom he had three daughters and a son, until her death in 1972. In 1975 he married Joan Murphy, a former Ford Agency model twenty-five years his junior (who survived him).
Bugas died in 1982, at the age of 74, at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital a week after undergoing heart bypass surgery.
John Bugas