Chicagoland Lakefront Mansion Sells for $14.5 Million

A Kenilworth mansion on Lake Michigan sold for $14.5 million — the second-highest price anyone has paid for a Chicago-area home this year and the most-expensive in the northern suburb this decade.

The six-bedroom, 10 bathroom home at 219 Sheridan Road sold nearly 97 percent of its $15 million asking price, the Chicago Tribune reported.

@properties Christie’s International agent Jena Radnay had the listing which sold for $1,751 per square foot. The seller was designer Yoanna Kulas. Radnay also represented the unidentified buyers.

The 8,280-square-foot home, which sits on a half-acre lot with 115 feet of private beach, listed in mid-August after debuting in July on an agent’s-only network. It went under contract just three weeks later.

Four of this year’s top home sales have been on Sheridan Road in Winnetka or in Kenilworth. Two other trades in Winnetka and one each in Glencoe and Lake Forest round out the top 10. Only two of the year’s biggest residential sales so far have been in Chicago proper, both downtown condos.

Radnay has been at the center of the surge, representing the seller, buyer or both in six of the year’s 10 priciest deals. She also brokered the $31.3 million sale of Winnetka mansion at 419 Sheridan this year, the most-expensive resale price ever recorded for a single residential property in Chicagoland.

She was behind all five Winnetka transactions and this Kenilworth record-setter, making her a dominant force in the region’s upper-tier market.

The home at 219 Sheridan Road was built in 1907 by Paul Starrett — the builder behind New York’s Empire State Building and Washington’s Lincoln Memorial. It combines classic Colonial Revival bones with a contemporary interior.

Kulas bought it in 2020 for $4.5 million and renovated extensively with architect Michael Abraham and kitchen designer Mick DeGiulio.

The Kulas family has drawn previous attention: Yoanna and her husband, Mark Kulas, own design and cleaning businesses, respectively, and their sons were among those pardoned by President Donald Trump this year for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Kenilworth’s high-end market has stayed busy this fall, with three other sales above $5.9 million in October alone.

— Eric Weilbacher