Suburban Chicago Lakefront Mansion Listed for $7 Million

A blufftop home built by one of Chicago’s most influential philanthropists has hit the market with an asking price that could break a long-standing local record.

Anik and Surina Narula have listed their nine-bedroom, 10,800-square-foot Highland Park mansion at 2441 Woodbridge Lane for $6.9 million, Crain’s reported. The price comes to $639 per square foot.

Built in 1957 for the late Irving B. Harris, namesake of the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, the midcentury estate sits on a nearly two-acre lot perched above Lake Michigan and includes indoor and outdoor pools, a tram down the bluff and a beachfront.

It asks about $640 per square foot, and Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty agents Patrick Milhaupt and Linda Levin have the listing.

The home is part of a three-home enclave on Woodbridge Road, a stretch accessible only by a wood bridge spanning a ravine.

If the home sells for above $6 million, it would mark the first lakefront property in Highland Park to reach that threshold since 2021. It would also be the second-highest sale ever in the tiny bluffside pocket, behind an $11.15 million purchase in 2007 by Medline executive Andrew Mills.

Irving Harris, who died in 2004, was a major force behind the creation of several Chicago institutions, including the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, WTTW/Channel 11, the Erickson Institute and a namesake auditorium at the Aspen Music Festival.

The home was designed for him and his first wife, Rosetta, by midcentury architect Henry Newhouse II, known for several lakefront properties across the North Shore.

The agents say the current owners have meticulously updated the interior while preserving the serene, minimalist aesthetic. The redesign includes cream limestone floors, a skylit hot tub alcove and a wall of east-facing windows overlooking the lake.

The Narulas acquired the property in 2007, but the purchase price was not recorded in public documents.

If sold at or near asking price, the home would further solidify Highland Park’s luxury waterfront market rebound after years of sluggish high-end activity. Michael Jordan’s former residence, a few miles inland at 2700 Point Lane, is the city’s benchmark after selling for $9.5 million in December.

— Judah Duke