By COLlive reporter
Have you ever dreamed of living in 770?
Here’s your chance and it will only cost you $2,200,000.
A stunning 5,000 square-foot English-style residence in Kenilworth, Illinois, is currently on the market, offering its buyers 3 stories of “timeless elegance” with exquisite architectural details.
Built in 2007, the home has 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, 4 fireplaces with exceptional finishes, high-quality materials and craftsmanship, distinctive moldings, rich millwork, custom cut limestone, slate roof and copper gutters.
The entire main floor has 11-foot ceilings and the rest of the home has formal living, dining, family rooms. The kitchen is a wood model with top grade appliances, huge island and separate breakfast room. It also has a wine cellar, sauna and exercise room.
Its most striking feature, to us at least, is the resemblance of the home’s red brick exterior to the iconic 3-pointed Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, NY.
Replicas of 770 have been built around the world in Israel, Italy, Brazil and other countries, but they typically are built and used as synagogues and outreach centers. There has yet to be a Chabad family building a 770 replica as a home.
And there’s one more kicker to this offer: It’s only an 8-minute drive from the Chabad of Wilmette – Center for Jewish Life and Learning on Old Glenview Road, run by Rabbi Dovid and Rivke Flinkenstein.
If that’s what someone thinks of 770 that it is rooted in Gashmiyus they missed the lessons of the Rebbe.
But……..it has only one sink in the kitchen.
love this!!!
I don’t know this house looks kinda dingy and midevil
It doesn’t have a jewish look or feeling
wow this is some house.
This was not built by someone trying to replicate 770. This is a the colonial style used on many homes in the early 1920-30’s. You will find many homes that look very similar to “770” in the New England area and other quaint places.
I believe my cousins moved out the following year. He transferred to a different city. Don’t know if they had reason to do this other than practical ones, but the family might have felt some social exclusion or wanted at least some Jewish community contact. The father passed on and I haven’t had contact with them for years since.
The sink part actually does not look like it was built by a Jew. a lot of people have a sink and then another sink on their island to use while cooking on it. if you were making a second sink would it be on the island????
stayed at my father’s cousins by the name of Singer. He was an executive at a big corporation at the time. His daughter got accepted at an Ivy League school. I know there were secular Jews there, but possibly not many. We even spent the better part of the day at an exclusive country club in the area.I don’t know if they were members or only guests. Don’t remember everything but I know what I experienced. The country club may not have accepted Jews as members.
Did not sell homes to Jew for 50 years. Hillary grew up near there.
some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the country. Don’t believe this is the case anymore with that price. About 50 years ago I spent a weekend there with cousins of my father. We were not brought up religious but there definitely were affluent secular Jews there even then. My cousin had friends but they were goyim and act anti-semitely superior. I recall one of them smoking a cigarette and flicking the ashes on my cousins back. Like most Jews back then she only showed a slight annoyance over this. Old memories of a BT.
Don’t you realize what this is? Dunno what you’re thinking but I’m thinking, this is one of the many, many millions of mansions that will soon be granted to each and every Jewish family when Moshiach gets here shortly. It’s gorgeous and don’t you remember us being promised riches and all the gold and the silver “as in the exodus of Egypt”! To me, honestly I think this beautiful home plopped down from heaven, as so will the third Beis Hamikdosh. All the luxuries will be ours and the whole world will be full of Hashem’s holiness and glory. Illinois,… Read more »
“A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest,”
but would not feel personally comfortable or worthy to live in a duplicated ‘770’.
no catch, thats the market prices in chicago
While you may not understand the point of the “770 copycats” you should know that it was the Rebbe who was the one who asked for the “copycat 770” to be built in kfar chabad and spoke of the chashivus of it looking the same
am i the only one who thinks this house is tacky and ostentatious? then again, I don’t get the thrill of all the 770 copycats either. 770 is just an ugly brooklyn building – used to be an illegal hospital – and is holy because of the inside, not the exterior.
Nearby Chabad could do more of the Rebbe’s work with this!
the brick work is not what makes 770 a makom kadosh no reason to buy it would you buy a palm today that LOOKS like the rebbes lulav ofcourse not a cute pic but nothing more
Anyone know if the shliach wants it?
Maybe we can start a campaign to help him get it. It would be a shud if it doesn’t end at chabad.
Rabbi Cunin di it a long time ago
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I pray this house gets turned into a Jewish institution somehow. A Shul, Library, Mikvah or all 3. Please G-d let someone Jewish buy this house and use it to spread Geulah!
I remember when Jews couldn’t live in Kenilworth. Go figure
Just an idea may be Chabad Illinois should buy it and sell the present Chabad house.
Hollywood kitchen, but no wall to wall carpet.
In the kitchen there are two stoves, two sinks, two ovens… Not something you normally see in non-Jewish households
Just bought it !!! Tough negotiating
details please
What’s the catch?
But this is more than just a ‘striking resemblance’…this has to be based on 770
What’s the history behind who and why it was built as a 770 replica?
Still wouldn’t ever move to Kenilworth. Known in the area for it’s lack of Jews and outright disdain for them. They used to have the signs “no Jews, no blacks and no dogs” posted on their beaches.
That’s what Cunin has been doing with all the bricks and roofing …
Love it
Kenilworth!
my, my, how times have changed
once upon a time they had restrictive covenets:
NO JEWS ALLOWED!
stunning inside and out, would move in
And it has two (!) sinks in the kitchen !
Who are the owners ? Did they deliberately design it like 770?
That doesn’t even buy you a condo in crown heights