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1903 Hinsdale house gets rehab, $10M price tag 

Estate in western suburb named 2023 Whole Home by House Beautiful Magazine

Dawn McKenna, Julie Laux and 505 South County Line Road (Getty, Dawn McKenna Group, J. Jordan Homes, Google Maps)
Dawn McKenna, Julie Laux and 505 South County Line Road (Getty, Dawn McKenna Group, J. Jordan Homes, Google Maps)

A Hinsdale estate is back on the market after a renovation — and if it sells at its $10 million price tag it would be the priciest home sale ever in the Chicago suburb. 

The 13,000-square-foot home at 505 South County Line Road was updated this fall by a team of designers and House Beautiful Magazine after going unsold during a previous stint market. 

In July, the magazine announced plans to rehabilitate the 22-room, 3-acre estate that belonged to Molex CEO Fred Krehbiel until his death in 2021. 

Coldwell Banker agent Dawn McKenna is listing the property and was unavailable to comment on the listing. 

The house, built in 1903 and renovated by acclaimed architect David Adler decades later, hasn’t been fully updated since the 1990s. The property includes eight bedrooms and nine bathrooms. During the renovation this fall, the home was “completely reimagined,” according to the listing. The makeover included substantial updates to the kitchen and bathrooms; the property also includes a library, bowling alley and swimming pool. 

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Krehbiel tried to get the house designated as a historic landmark before his death, which would’ve protected it from a possible demolition. Preservationists and local residents told Crain’s at the time that they were hoping the project would lead to other historic properties being saved, especially in Hinsdale, where a number of vintage homes had been demolished. 

Julie Laux, owner of Hinsdale homebuilding firm J. Jordan Homes, pitched the rehab project to House Beautiful earlier this year. Mihai Sava, who bought the property for $7.5 million in May 2022 and listed it shortly after,  committed $200,000 to the overhaul.

Sava hired McKenna to list the property just a few months after buying it in 2022, realizing the amount of work required to fix it up. The mansion was originally priced at $9 million.

If it sells for the amount it’s seeking now, it would be the priciest home sale ever in Hinsdale, eclipsing the current record by more than $2 million.

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