Lake Bluff Mansion Priced at Nearly $7M

A Tommy Hilfiger executive is shopping his Lake Bluff estate after performing an extensive renovation that lasted almost a decade.

Trent Wisehart, executive vice president for the global fashion brand, has listed his seven-bedroom, 7,900-square-foot mansion at 1010 Green Bay Road for just shy of $7 million, Crain’s reported. Compass agents Marina Carney and Andrew Mrowiec are representing Wisehart.

There are some pricier listings in the northern Chicago suburbs, though around $7 million seems to be the maximum amount for what a buyer is willing to pay in Lake Bluff. Last year, the 10,000-square-foot home at 1717 Shore Acres Drive traded for $7.1 million, roughly a year after it hit the market at $9.95 million. That transaction followed the $7.65 million sale of another Lake Bluff mansion, setting a record in the suburb.

Wisehart bought the 8.2-acre Green Bay Road estate for $1.73 million in 2014. It had been owned by just two families over the past 101 years, and a long list of repairs were needed, including asbestos removal, a new kitchen, baths and windows.

The floors and doors needed to be stripped or replaced, as there were 67 resident cats that ingrained an unpleasant smell into the house. Wisehart also rebuilt the house’s second staircase, swimming pool, patio and outdoor staircase to the pool, and his revamp “saved that place from ruin,” Carney told the outlet.

The house was designed by famed architects David Adler and Henry Dangler in 1913. Wisehart’s renovations were made to be “very much in keeping with David Adler’s aesthetic.”

Built in a French style, the 17-room mansion has a library, pool, poolhouse, a pair of two-car garages, two fireplaces and a coach house.

Wisehart has worked for Tommy Hilfiger since 1997 and can work from anywhere, he told the outlet. He plans to buy another Lake Forest property for a new home overhaul project.

— Quinn Donoghue