If you loved as a kid, now’s your chance to have Kevin McAllister’s family home for yourself. The movie's — yep, it's a real house — hit the market this week for the first time in 12 years, selling for $5.25 million.
The 9,126-sq. ft. home, built in 1921 and located in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois, is being offered by The Dawn McKenna Group.
The group shared a video of the home, calling it “a piece of American history,” May 24 . They also listed the property on real estate sites, . The group's fun video takes viewers on a tour of the five-bedroom, six-bathroom home using clips from “Home Alone” to showcase its many changes.
Though the exterior of the stately Georgia-style home looks the same as it did in , the interior has been completely reimagined with a focus on luxury. “Home Alone” tells the story of 8-year-old Kevin McAllister ( ), who’s y his family when they take a vacation to Paris. Kevin is forced to fend off two hapless burglars who break into the family’s home on Christmas Eve.
The Dawn McKenna Group's video shows Kevin riding his sleigh down the home's red-carpeted staircase in the movie just before highlighting footage of the same gleaming wood stairs today. The dark and creepy attic Kevin was terrified of has been transformed into a light-filled suite featuring a full bath with a soaking tub. Interior walls throughout the house have been removed to turn once “compartmentalized” rooms into vast open spaces, the real estate .
