By Mark
Schadenberg
Kevin
McAllister’s house is for sale, but if you want to buy it be prepared to bring out
your cheque book as the asking price is $2.4 million.
McAllister's residence
became famous 24 years ago as the home for fictional precocious boy who was accidently
forgotten at home by his Chicago suburban parents before a Christmas getaway. A hilarious movie with Macaulay Culkin
playing pranks on a pair of prowlers (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) is a classic
Christmas move – Home Alone.
The
Winnetka, Illinois mansion (Found on Lincoln Avenue) just north of Chicago is now on the
market.
If you
read old stories about the making of the movie, a good portion of it was not
filmed inside the house as director Chris Columbus and writer John Hughes obviously
did not want to destroy the Georgian-style mansion. Therefore, the antics were
filmed on a sound stage created off-site.
Apparently,
the Home Alone house was built in 1921 and surprisingly only has four bedrooms.
The
link below depicts most of the rooms today, so you can compare it
to the movie, but keep in mind, some of the rooms were not used in the picture.
The
house sold as recently as 2012 for $1.58 million and was noted as being 4200 sq
ft, including its finished attic.
Unrelated
to Home Alone, if you love lame comedies with non-plausible storylines, check
out Pesci’s Eight Heads In A Duffle Bag, which was made in 1997.
LINKS:
If you destination is Oxford County for real estate, contact:
Mark Schadenberg, sales representative
Royal LePage Triland Realty Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
(519) 537-1553
Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter: markroyallepage
Facebook: Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
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